Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-08-10
Our Crime.

Hon. II. L. walton, IN his last
Journal begins an editorial with the
following language:
1--WE have had occasion to compli-
ment friend Grout of the Barton Stan
dard, as q neat special pleader, and
now we must add that he is well post
ed in the minor strategic tricks Of the
lawyers.
And after having exercised himself
vigorously at the leader in the Stan.
dard of July 9th, headed SENATOR.
al" and having declared-very pleas.
antly of course-that it was a won.
der for "silliness" and "impudence,
he says:
"If there was ever a lawyer more
unwise or more impudent than that
we never knew him. 1t is certainly
a very poor plea to be poured into the
ears of a people who know theil
rights. We think they will teach the
lawyers better manners"
And then after laboring away again
at us and the leader, he closes off as
follows:
80 let the people take the case
into their own hands and decide it
without regard to the tears Of the
lawyers. We know of nobody else
crying about this matter"
By the above extracts, it will be
seen, that the legal profession is con-
tinually referred to in connection
with Especial pleading" "m n +
Strategic tricks" 'impudence" and
want of "manners j." and this by an
ex-member of Congress while address
sing the people through a public
journal. Not only on this occasion,
but repeatedly, heretofore, has Mr..
Walton, during the present Senatori-
al discussion, alluded to the lawyers,
with epithets,"
not of "war," but Of ridicule and re.
proach. Mr.. Walton is, we believe
the only journalist in the State, who
has persistently labored, in this can
vass, to create with the people {
prejudice against the legal profession
Though that is one of the principa
points which the politicians and wire
pullers make, in their electioneering
efforts, yet the press has not general
ly resorted to it. Mr.. Walton, how
ever, being a professional politician
is of course we'll skilled in all the fin
arts of the craft, and readily echoe
all their small prejudices.
We cannot teel that these dispal
aging illusions to the profession, b
Mr.. Walton, are accidental merel,
They SAVIOR too much of system, an
are too often repeated, to admit
that view.
Some one may ask, why the pc
ticians, in this Senatorial canvass, al
continually slurring the lawyers ? I'll
answer is plain; because Judge P
land is a lawyer; and they aim
make the people believe, that the la
yers are striving to force him upC
them as Senator; thereby creatir
resistance on the part of the peopl
to this alleged scheme of the lawyer
Many who read this, will recall
once, an interview with some polite
high priest in Mr.. Morrill's serviC
when this very point Of which we a
now speaking, was presented to the
Besides, we have it upon good auth'
3 ity, as coming from one of Morril
grandees, that this argument, inge
ously presented to the people, won
turn a great many against Judge |
land; and then when they present
the arguments in favor of Mr.. Morr
especially the argume''tum de scOol
concerning which, see last wee
Standard-they would surely 60
him. Here then, is one of the trio
of the politicians. Now let us ask
readers Of the Standard, what ii
think of the "minor strategic tricks
the lawyers" a s compared W
what may be very properly demo
mated the major strategic tricks"
the politicians ?s;a. as. III
1t is an old adage, and wise Q
that che who lives in a glass ho'
should be careful about throw
stones" We commend this to