Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-08-18
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The Register is Il new Daily in
Philadelphia, and about the cleverest
and sharpest paper i5sucA in that
city The Editor appears to have
been absurdly accQs d ofharboring u
prejudice against Lanyefs, which
imputation he repels with spirit = rs
follows:1
We not only respect La vyers bpt
have a lively admiration fot them. I'll
Who ever heard of one of them Ia
king q fee in an unjust can Use: or do
ing a hard hearted thingP tor saying
Kat he did not believe? or encoar-
aging litigation2 or misrepresenting
evidence to the jury? Do Tocqueville
rightly says they are the aristocracy
that is, the best Of Ihen-of the
United States. Our own admiration
of them is founded on large expe-
rience Of their virtues. Let Us call
up, for moment, from our pleasant
memories Of the past, the images of
a few Lawyers of our own acquaint
ance.
There is our friend at Columbus,
Mississippi. who. never varies from
his scale of charges, even for friends.
We sent him once for collection our
bill Of 50 against subscribers. He
collected it the same day !. and sent
US by return mail his own bill for q fee
of SD, with poll e duh for the IN
paid balance of So WE Irtmitted in
! stanter, thanking him fot his prompt
ness
Then there is the mihent counsel
lor at Lake Providence, who charged
/ us 5000 on bill Of Exchange fol-
$4,000, which had BEEN paid on pre-
sentation We demonstrated and he
consoled US for not having collected
:. through q bank 10y tlie assurance
that if professional eliqEHette did not
forbid, lie would most certainly re-
luce his original cIr.r!se, which lIe
{ admitted was rather oa'heavy.
a still better man Eas a Texas
lawyer, to whom We enl rustcd ii dis
puted land claim. ON ant arrangement
called the ''halves,' verb common in
that part Of the c}untfY. A face
!ious dogWas Smith, Af Eighteen
mouths elapsed without our hearing
from him. lie then wlIqte, as an an
swer to our twentieth eHistle, that he
r had done remarkably we'll with the
claim, having compromised il for hall
, the value Of the property; that he
, had pocketed the half f4r his fee; and
!, that we were really NOT indebted to
him for anything besidas the cost oi
a suit he had commences and discon-
5 tinued. We could have fairly hug-
ged the fellow for Ills gay and careless
: humSr.
lie did not give us hif the tronb-
r lie we had with a lawyer out at Jefftr-
son City. who had collie tied for US 4
t claim Of several Ii ndred PunctuaI
t as d correspondent. he advised US, by
the first null, adding II flt the mails
) were made very irregular by the over
flowing olthe river, and he did not
thinkit safe to remit We waited
: until summer time, until ona could
almost wade the Upper Missouri
. The river was so low theh, Ire said, that
be found it extrem ely announcement tc
/. let his paper to the ba NJ k where he
usually had it casbed. Two seasons
! passed by. and innumd r;.ble letters
t were interchangel in regard to remit
) ting, drafts and foundations. At HIST
{ being in i eed of funds, We wrote HAT
/, we must Insist on having the money
. irrespective Of the state of the water
! He was an honest creature at heart,
3 and sent it,forgetting % add the two
, years interest but deductlng 2 per
cent for his fee
] Lawyers will he a little lazy some
f times;but can we blame a man for
!, physical happiness or lactiyity?, The
. LATEST one we ever knew lived at
Shawneetown, Illinois He had pro-
missed for year or two to remit TO
Louisville some money lie had col
lected for us. Bukiness-like demands,
5 cajolery, persuasion, argument, and
t menace, had no effect OH him. lie
would write no more At last we
sent him in full the anccaote of the
man, who WAS so lazy that he ate ap-
Piles off the tree, not being energetic
enough TO raise his hand to pluck
them. This touched the right spot,
and he. reused himself so far as to
send US. the money The effort may
have killed him, for we have never
heard of him since.
In no profession is there a more