The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-31

other class of men. As | belong to
the fraternity I can say this without
prejudice. Men are reserved in the
presence of a respectable clergyman.
I might live in Schenectady, and dis
charge all my appropriate duties from
year to year, and never hear an oath
nor see a man drunk and If some one
should ask me, sSwhat sort OF popus
lation have YOU in Schenectady,
Are they a moral people 9D0 they
swear? Do. they get drunk for
ought | had seen Tor had heard L
might answer This is after all,
yeTy decent world. There is very
little vice in it. People have entirely
left off the sin of profaneness; and.
of that" But | can put on my old
great coat, and an old slouchlng hat,
and In FIVE minutes place myself amid
the scenes of blasphemy, vice and
misery, which [ never could have be-
lieved existed if / had not seen them.
So man may walk along Broadway
and think to himself. what a. fnep ace
this isl How civil the people are!
What a decent and orderly and YirtH-
Gus city New York ISL while, at the.
same time, within thirty rods of him,
are scenes of pollution and crime
such as none but an eye witness can
adequately imagine. ] would have a
minister see the world for himself.
1t is rotten to the core. Ministers
ordinarily see only the brighter side
of the world. Almost everybody
treats them with ecivility; the reG-,
gious, with peculiar kindness and at
tention. Hence they are apt to think
too we'll of the world. Lawyers, on
the other hand, think too i'll of it.
They see only, or for the most part,
its worst side. They are brought in
contact with dishonesty and villainy
in their worst developments. | have
observed in doing business with law
yers, that they are exceedingly haw <
eyed and jealous of everybody. The
omission of a letter or a word IN a
will, they win scan with the closest
scrutiny; and while / could see no
use for any but the most concise and
simple terms to express the wishes of
the testator, a lawyer would be salts
fed with nothing but the most pre-
else and formal instrument, stuffed
full of his legal cdUedts and technicz
alities. q s n~ sss sae. atiI '-51i
DR.. Mott, speaking of Burr and
Hamilton, said: $50 h41oa t IS So 81
Burr, above all men whom | ever
knew, possessed the mest, eonsum
mate tact in evading and covering up
the arguments of his opponent. His
great art was to throw dust in the
eyes Of the jury, and make them be
lieye that there was neither force nor
sense, nor anything else in the areu
ments of the opposing counsel. He
never met position, nor answered an
argument, but threw around them the
mist of sophistry, and thus weakened
their force. He was the prince of
plausibihties. He was always on ii e
right side lin his own opinion) and
was always perfectly confident. 7s
Hamilton, on the other hand, al
lowed to the arguments of his oppo-
nent all the weight that could ever be
fairly claimed for them, and attacked
and demolished them with the club
of Hercules. He would never engage
in cause unless he believed he was
on the side of justice, and he often
threw into the scale of his client the
whole weight of his personal charac-
ter and opinion. His opponents fire.
quently complained of the undue in
fuence he thus exerted upon the
court, .s.s.t froa-