The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1866-03-14

e'N SiFSo Aiio
own sad Experience.
MILLrpaxvILLE Feb. 1866.
Messrs G. e.. Cummings and Others.
Committee
GENTLrMsS Il have re-erved your
kind invitation to address your Law skonl.
/" the situation bv which am surround
ed it is impossihh fos me to go. wish
| could fr l would like to tell YOU all |
know shout law, and il woulient take
me long. I'm now in the law bisness
myself at this pla.e. We are engaged in
Inanufakturn it by Wholesale, and after
awhile it will bs retailsd ont bv the law
yrrs TO any that wants il It's an easy
hi.nrss To make law, though some Of the
bills introduced are swfully spell. To.
day | saw bi in ~fich "ma,hesnery"
VA. spelt with two -sses and four .as-.
But tho greatest difficult, is in under.
standIn the law after it is msds. Among
lawyers this difficulty don't seem to lie 80
much IN the head, as in tho pocket. For
1ve dollars LAWYER can lunn'ze some.
and more akkordn to pay. But h.
oughent To lu,ninize but oae side 1T y
time. The first case | ever had in n
Justice court, | employed old Bob Liggns,
who WAS n sorter of \ self educated fool
| give him two dollars in advance. and
hs argued the case "a thought, on tw"
sides, aud was more luninou, agin than
:or me. lost the case, and found out
alter~nrds that tho defendant had en-
pl"!rd Liggrns "fier did, and give him
hive do!Isrs TO loose NY case. lo"k upon
this ss wnrnin to all clients, 10 pay big
fee' ndk,eP your lawyers out of lsmpts
tiun.
Ny experience in litigation have not
been sat'sf~k ktor,. sued Sugar Bsck
ons, for tbs prce ofa load Of shuks lie
said hs wanted to buy some tutfness. aud
| agreed to bring him load Of shuk. for
two doll.u. Ny wagiu got broke Xni
he got tired a ~sil,n. and sen. out after
The shuks hisssIL When | called on him
for the pay, hs seemed surprised, and sed
It had c,sl him too d6llars and = half 70
have the shuks hsuld, sad THAI | jestiy
owed HIM half y dollar. lie ~. bigger
than | VAS so | swallowed my bile aud
su-d him. His lawyer pied set of for
haulin. lie pied that Tho shucKs va. un
sound that they wers bsrd by limits
tions; ths, they dident sgree with his
COW, and that lie never got any shuks
from me. He spoke about AL hour,
alooded 10 me AS n s~inJler sbnu. IS
times. The bedeviisd jury wsot out aud
brought ina verdik agn me for fifty
cents and lour dollars for costs Of suit. |
hahn, saved nary shuk on my plantation
| since, and ] dont intend TO until Il y:,s
less expensive look upon this ~ =
~arniu to all f,lks, never to 90 10 la
about shuks, OF any other smaII circun.
stance.
The mex, trouble I had WAS wnh
fsllsr who hir-d 1" dig the veil lie
Was to dig II for twenty dollars and I ~ss
to pay hin ia meat and meal. sich like
The vag"b"nd KEEP, gi,lin along uo,il he
got all the pay. but hadent dug na,y fo-t
- tho grown. SO made out nv Akkount,
and susd him as follsrs. to-~u:
Old john Ii.nks to Bill Arp, DR..
To Well you di lent dig. $50.
Wall. Hanks. he hired cheap LAWYER,
who rarei round extensively. and sed q
heap Of funny things n, my expense, aud
hnaIIy dismissed my case for ~hs, h.
called It's "rd,kniun adsu.dun." I paid
those costs aud went home = ssddsr and
= wiser man. pulled down INV lu,Is
cabin and moved il some 500 yards
higher to lbe spring, and I've drunk ,uity
little we'll ~s,er since. look upon this
case rs = wsrnin to all folks never to Day
Tor anything NIL you've got il. espsshiaIIy
if IL has to be dug
The usxt Law esss ! had I gained il all
hy myself by the force OF cmkn,u stances.
] bought = n,su'. no's'tba, ~a, given Tor
the hire Of niger boy, Dick. Frndin