The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-21
Bill Arp Addresses the Lebanon Law School
aud Gives his Own Sad Experience.

MILLEDGRvILLE, Feby, 1865
hessrs c. C. Cummings, and others, Committee:
Gentlemen II have reserved your kind invi-
tation to address your law skoOl. In the stu
alton by which am surrounded ii is impossi-
bull for me to go. wish could, for would
like to tell you all know about law, and II
wouldent take me long. I'm now In the law
bisiness myself at this phase. We are engaged
in manufakturin it by wholesale, and after
awhile IL will be retailed out by the lawyers TO
any that wants 1t. It's an easy bisness TO make
law, though some Of the bills introduced are
awfully spelt. To-day saw bill, in which
masheenery' was spelt with two esses and
four ease. But the greatest difficulty is In
understandin the law after it is made. Among
lawyers this difficulty don't seems to lie 80
much in the head as in the pocket. For I'VE
dollars q lawyer can luminiZe some, and more
akkordin to pay. But he oughent to luminize
but one side at a time. The first case ever
had in a justice court, employed old Bob
Liggins, who was sorter Of a self. educated
fool Igiye him two dollars in advance, and
he argued the case as / thought on two sides,
and was more luminous agin than for me.
lost the case, and found out afterwards that
the defendent had employed Liggins after ]
did, and give him five dollars to loose my case.
look upon this as a warnin to all clients TO
pay big fees and keep your lawyers out OF
temtatiOn. tt EEe
NV experience in litigation have not been
satisfactory. sued Sugar Black onst for the
price of load Of shuks. He said he wanted
10 bny some ruffuess, and agreed to bring
him o load Of shuks for too dollars. My
wagin got broke and he got tired Q waitln, and
sent ont after the shuks hisself. When called
on him for pay, he seemed surprised, and sed
IL had cost him 100 dollars half TO have the
shnks hauld, and that jestly OVID him half
swallowed my bile and sued him. His lawyer
pled q set or for haulin. He pied that the
SINKS was unsound; that they were bard by
limitations; that they dident agree with his
cow, and that he never got any shuks from me-
Ia n 1>na1 n m M an
q swindler about 40 times. The bedeyiled jury
went out and brought in a yerdik again me for
nifty cents. and -four dollars for costs Of suit.
] haint saved nary shuk on my. plantation
since, and don't intend to until IL gifts less
expensive. look upon this as warnin to
Ai folks. asrer to 90 to lao about sh,sks, or any
other small circumstance. $3.50 II -
Lne next trouble had wus with TELLER
w1O msed 70 dig me we'll. He wus to dig
" TOT twenty dollars, and wus 10 pay him In
meat ana meal, and sich like. The vagabond
~ gistsn along until he got ali the pay, but
ms1s -, ~ nv ply loot IN the grown. So ]
Old John Hanks to Bill Arm n. -
70 We'll you dident dig Aao II
Vel, aaan be hired cheap lawyer. who
funny things at my expense. and finally a, y.
Missed my case for what he called In - rfdts,,.
iun absnrdum." paid those costs, and Went
nome : ssddsr and . wiser man. pulled
yards higher 70 the SPRING and r We drnnk mity
utt1D weli water since. look upon this case
&C warAfn 10 MI folks aevsv 10 pay yoy aay.
AiEg tn 1pss'ss got It espesbiaLiv y u has to BE-
Ths next law csse had gained Il all BY
nyseh BY the force Of circumstances. bought
Q inan's note that was Giyen for the hire u 8
nl9eer boy DIX. rindtnk he Wouldn't pay
NJ, ssed him before cd 6quiFe McGinnii,
heleey1n e ~as sleh desd tbtbe thet the deytl
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