The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-02-22
Bill Arp Addresses, the Lebanon Law
School and gives His own sad Exper-'
fence,


MILLEDGEyILL, Feby, 1866.
4uessrs. Q. q. Cummings and Others COM
GENTLE MEM have reseyed your kind
invitation to address your law skool In
the situation by which am surrounded IL
ls imposibul for me to 90, wish / could
for would like otell you oil know about
law, and it woudent take Inc long. Pm
now In the law bisness myself at this plase,
We are engaged in tmunufakturin il by
| Wholesale, and after awhile IL will be retail
cd out by the lawyersto any that wants IT,
Its an easy bisness to make law, though
some Of the bills introduced are awfuily
spelt To-day l saw,a bill, in which "lna.
sheencry" W AZ spelt with Two esses and four
ease But tile greatost difficulty Is in un-
derstandin tae law after 1t is made. Among
lawyers tnis difficulty don't seem to lie 90
much in tho head, esin the pocket. For
edollars Iawyer can luminize some, and
more akkordin TO pay. But he oughent to
luminize nut one side at a time. The first
case evei had IN Sipstice court, employ
ed old Bob Liggins,y@h @ho was sorter of q
self-ettucated tool, "a giva him two dollars
In advance, and hesargueI the case as I
thought, OH two sides, and was more lumin-
ous'agn than for ME. i lost the case, and
found out Afterwards that the defendant
had employed Liggihs after did, and give
him five dollars to loose my case. I look
upon this us warnin TO oil clients, to nav
bid fees anu keep yoGr lawyers out Of TEN.
tation. r#.'at .lfS sI....I''f.g cgI.t ~
/ My experience in litigation have not been
satisfactory. suea Sugar Black onst for
the price OF n load Of shuks. He said he
wanted TO buy some WITNESS. and l agreed
to bring him q loadfof shuks for two dollars
My wagin got broke aud he got ,ierd o
waltin, and sent ont after the shuks his
self When 1 called ON him for the paw
he seemed surprised, and sed il had col
him too dollars and half to have Z
shuks hauld, and that jestly owed hira
half dollar. He wss bigger taan'I As
SO swallowed my bile and sued him. dis
lawyer pied set off for hauln. Hllcd
that the ,shucks vas unsound; thathey
were bard by limitations; that lheyident
agree with mis- cow, and that he mr. got
any shuks from me. lie spoke 5out an
hour, allooded tome as q swnSr about
40 times, The bedeyiled jyWent out
cents cen srSS a%S as Rsa @ SS's ssa s. S sSS Oh MY
haint saved narybhuk on Ky plantation
SINCE, aud don't hfend to jhtilit gifts less
expensive. oolapon tb5 as a warnin
| TO all folks, never go to wv about shuks,
or any other smal al|circuDstance.
The next troubI hadl was with Teller
who hired to di tne aRSell. He was to
dig it for twenty blleis, and was to pay
him in meat and pal, sich like. The va
gabond kept thlong until he got all the
pay, but hadent g nary foot ia the grown.
SO made out m&kount, and sued him as
follers, to wit:
Old John HanNo Bill Arp, DR..
To Well yodident dig, $40.
We'll, Hanks, llhired a cheap lawyer,
who rared roun&xtensively, and sed
heap OF funny ttgs at my, expense, and
finally disniissedy case for what lie call.
ed its '"ridikuiunh hsurdum. D. i paid those
costs and went h9e o sadder and a wiser
moved il some3 yards higher TO the
spring, and Eve dnk nifty little we'll wa
ter since. lookpon this case as warn
in to all folks nct to pay for any thing
I'LL you've got il, peshially if it has u be
dug. .a
The next law &c l had gained it all i
by myself by thforce of circumstances. L
bought IL mans't 'te that was given for the
hire of ,niggeboy, Dick. Findin he
.wouldent pay me sued him before OLD
Squire McGinns beleevin it was sioh
dead thing that tldevil couldenc keep me
oii: Of. 6 ycsd:k. e feller's attol ney nlcnd
failure of considetion, and non est Jaktunl
and igais fatuis, a infancy, and that the
nigger's name went DIX, but Richard. ,
The old squire wM powerful secesh, and
hated the Yankee amazin. SO, after the {
lawyer hwi got thugh his speech and fn- !
ished up Shis read from book called
"Grecnleaf," roI forward to. an attitood. {
Stretchn forth nJrm, ses l. esquire Nc
Ginnis, would a, eur, if this is time In
the history of ourffiicled country when /
Federal law booksboud be admitted in q
Southern patriopDourL? Haven't we se-
ceeded forever fro their foul domination?
Don't our flag wapver Fort Sumter, and I
what, sur, have wsot to do with Northern
laws? On the veifirst page of the gen
tlemans bookI 50 the name Of the city of :
Bosting. ,Yes sunnd it was written in s
Bosting, published Bosting and sold in 6
Bosting, where th don't know no more
about the hire Of agger than an OK knows I
the man that will 4 his hide" sed some I
more things that ls pinted and petriotik,
and closed my shment by hsndin the
book 70 the squirdHe put on his spekta-
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