East Saginaw courier., 1866-04-25

|, and hated the Yankees amazin,p $40
Scatter the lawyer had got through
his speech and finished his readin
from a book called 'sGreenleaf,' y rose
forward toinan attitoodse Stretehin
forth my arm, says i, Square Me-
Ginis, would ask sur, if this Is .
time in the history of our afflicted
country when Federal law books are
to be admitted in a Southern peoples
court ? Haven't we seeded forever
from their foul 'demination2o Don't
our flag wave over FortlSumter, and
what, sur, have we to do with northern
laws? On the very fust page of the
gentleman's book, L seed the name of
the city of Boosting. Yes sur it was
written in Bosting, published in Bos-
ting, and soldsin Boosting, where they,
don't know noImore about the hire Of
a nigger than an OK knows the man
that will tan his hide.pia1 sed some
more things that were pinted and
patriotic aud closed my argument by
handin the book to the Square. He
put on his specktakels, and after look
ing ut the book about a minute, says
he: sIQl e. repBT s,rotra
~ "Mr. Arp, you can have a Judge
ment and Ihope that henceforth and
forever, no lawyer will presoom to
come before this honorable court with
pizen documents to prove his case If
he do this court will take it q insult
and send him to Jail" "71cm bsi'a
/ look upon this case as a warnin
TO all who gamble in law, to hold a
good hand and play it weH. High
justice and patriotism are winning
trumps. f1a r-iSos
After this / had dii6oulty with a
man by the name of Kohen and j
thought wouldn't go to law, but i
would arbytrats. i had bought Tom
Lwillins wheat alta dollar a bushel yf
he couidnt do any better. and if hecould
do better he was to gire me the prsfer-
erenec. The scamp went off and sold
the wheat to Kohen for dollar and
five cents, and Kohen knowd all about
his eontrackt with me. lnril arss1
Me and him like to have fit, and per-
haps would If / hadn't been puny !;
but we finally left il all to Josh Bill
lings to arbitrate. Old Josh delibe-
rated on the thing for three days and
nights, and finally brought in an
award that Kohen should have the
wheat and l should have the prefer
ence. / haint submitted any more
cases to arbitration since, and my adj
vice to pepul is to arbitrate nothing
if your case is honest, for there amt
no Judge there to keep one man from
tricking the other. An honest man
don't stand no chance nowhere en-
cepting in court house with a good
lawyer to back him. The motto in
this case is, never to arbitrate nothing
but a bad case, and take a good law
yer's advice, and pay him for it before
yon do thnt. 1f3a
But | got Fretman--I didn't but
my lawyer Marks did. Fretman was
a skool teacher, who had gone round
my naborhood with his skool artikles,
and | pat down for Troup and Cad
nnd Calhoun TO go, aud intended to
send seven Ur eight more if he proved
himself right. i soon found that the
little nulliiier wasent believer in any
thing, and on enquiry Ifound that
Nutmeg was giyin powerful long re-
cesses, and was employin his time
chiefly in carrying on with n tolerable
sized femail gal that was goin to him.
Troup said he heard the gal squeel
hisself one day, and he knowed Fret
man was squeezing of her. i dident
mind our boys squeezing of the Yam
kee girls, but I'll he blamed if the
Yankees shall be squeezing ours
So / got mad and took the children
away. At the end of the term Fret
man sued me for eighteen dollars, and
hired a cheap lawyer 10 collect it.
Before this time / had learned some
sense about lawyer, so / hired a
good one, and spread my pocket book
down before him and told him to take
what would satisfy him. And he TUX.
Old Phil Davy was the Justice Marks
made the opening speech, to the effect
that every professional man ought to
be able to illustrate his trade, aud he
therefore proposed to put Mr.. Fret
man on the stand and spell him, =
This motion was fout hard, but il
agreed with Old Pills notions OF
"high justice" and "sense of right"
and says he: "Mr. Fretman, you will
have to spell" Mark then swore him,
that he would give true evidence In
this case, and that he would spell
every " ord in Daniel Webster's spellin
book corektly, to the best of his know
edge and belief, so help him, &c.
saw then that he was tremblin all
over like cold wet dog. 7,st9 rec
Says Mark, "Mr, Fretman, spell
'tisick !" well, he speIt it, putting in
a ph and tn and gh and zh, and
/ don't know what all, and / thought
he was gone up the first pop, but
Mark said it was right. He then
spelt him straight along in all sorts OF
big words and little words, aud long
words and short words, and after
wards, and he knowed them all, till
finally Mark says: Now, sur, spell
'Ompompynusuk." Fretman drawed
a long breath and said it wasn't in
the book. Mark proved IL by an old
preacher who was settin by, and old
Phil spok up with power and ses,
'Mr. Fretman, you must spell it sur" F"
Fretman was sweatin like. run
down filly. He took one pass at it
and failed.
"You can cum down sur" said
Mark, you've lost your case" And
sure enuf, old Phil gave a virdik
against Tim like darn.
Mark was whale in his way. And
at that same court he was about to