The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-11-10
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LAwyER ps. LAWYER.


with an offer of . cheap recommendation
to patronage, which be has nevertheless
eli constrained TO decline. The letter
10 IS follows:
GEonaETowN. June 6, 1858.
JOHN LIvINosToN, ESQ My dear
John Yours came safely to land
Withs trembling hand, and a beating
heart, I seized the letter, thinking from
its size that I had been singled out by
the majority of tho New York merchants
II The most proper person to put
through on the lightning line,' not on
~ Georgetown merchants, but those in
all the surrounding counties, and visions
ofn..pile' realized by 10 per cent, float
ed thronghmy mind, tiuged with all the
gorgeous hues of six rainbows; but alasl
sac trdasit gloria n1Kndi.' Upon open
ing il, the vision fed, and I found moth
ing hut your most fatteriug attempt to
do me out of ten dollars. You tell me
that my name has been inserted for my
county 10 your Catalogue of lawyers in
Texss and elsewhere By whose au-
thority, John, was this done? Our ac-
quaintance, I don't think, would justify
this liberty OF Jour part, and did 1 not
believe that it was done purely with the
desire alone of advancing my interest. l
should feel disposed to resent the liber-
- Gn -l T1L- -, kA1a 1,arI
Of your esteem and confidence, and
would have felt more SO, had you not
sent the rery same letter to all my &C.
quaintance among the bar. I don't uu-
derstand this, my dear fellow. Now
suppose, Jehn, that l should send you
SO, and thu balance of the profession
here should do Nbe same think of the
delicate situation hwhich you would be
placed. Six or seveo of us all paying
TO be inserted in your Catalogue of law
yers as the most reliable aryer tn
!Georgetos0a, Williamson County, Tea
as. How could you choose between US?
You have made the same promise>to all
Of us; and the place is too small to af-
ford but one reliable lawyer It won't
do, John The thing can't be explained
in any other way, but that you are try
ing to Jeremy Diddle' us put of ten
dollars essh-I It is poor compliment
70 our sense to think you can do it to
rs in this style. Why, the little boys
~
here all see through this; tits as plain
a. the old 'Grandmother's trick JohH.
Cannot or could you not, devise some
slieker method of putting US through ?
SYou say that the ten dollars will be my
s5nst proportion of the expense of pub.
hshipg and circulating said Catalogue
You arc mistaken, John-the rascally
publishers have fooled you-you have
: the names of about eight or ten thou.
sand reliable lawyers in the United
States, and at ten dollars a head, John
! It would look to a blind man as if there
was money enough to publish the lives
OF Gen. WashinssDn, Tom Thumb,
Fred. Douglas, the Angel Gabriel and
yourself, John, all bound in calf, and
have enough left beside to. slicker all
round You see we have studied ar
ithmetie here, John, and nave cut our
eyeteeth beside. We don't blame you,
John. for trying to take US in, for al
slough you know us we'll enough to
youch for Us TO any man who has import
ant business to attend to, and will, for
ten dollars, reeommend US as the 'nsost
and only riliabh laVgsrs IN George
.so,en' yet, John, you don't knoao US
(this is private, hoWeVer,) or you never
would have attempted to Simon Suggs
rs in this way. I believed am capable,
and hope I am honest, but, John, you
do not know the fact to be so, and there
fore, according to Polly, when you say
20, you lie, John.
You say in your postscript, that if
you can't do me for ten dollars I MAY
go in lemons to the amount Of :frs.--
Thank you-small faTors thankfully re-
csiyed-larger ones ia proportion. I be-
GeEe I will pass the first round and see
how the game goes.
In conclusion, John, allow me to re-
qaest you to take my name out Of your
book, John. I had as lief be published
almost in Q horse-thief list as to appear
IN your book, for we all understand it
here, and when q mans name is seen
there, we know he has bought the priv.
lege, and as we k,,ow the price, we
think but little of q ten dollar reputa-
zion, and less of q man who prizes it
enough to buy it. 1 consider myself in
.jured, John, by the irst insertion, and
If tits continued, shall be compelled to
resort to legal process to have it stop
ped-consider myself slandersd, and
think less Of every nan whose name ap,
pears in your catalogue if lone with his
authority. I would, before I close, ad-
wise you always to send a postage stamp
to pay postage with, did I not know it
was not \ part of your system to do so.
No news. Town as dull at present as
your attempt to swindle me.
In conclusion, allow me to subscribe
myself, my dear john
Your, oictin7, ia a horn,
hH .a A. II. CHALMERS.
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