New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-31


to avoid o. evade force Of direct. prin-
ciple. has lost the power to discriminate
between truth and soPhistzy. -
When. then. we see crowd OF lawyers
coming to take possession Of the canvass
and the direction of public thought. we
apprehend the most serious consequences
topublic order. Possibly there may be some
good result from this multitude Of coun.
selors. The White League Babel intended
to overtop the deluge of popular suffrage
may be arrested by the confusion Of legal
tongues. What nave we seen? A legion
of attorneys conspire and propose to
constitute themselves the advisers of a
political campaign. Opinions on pending
questions have been volunteered rs OF
more force than those Of officers sworn to
conduct the election and of an officer
sworn to expound the law.
A meeting is called of persons whose
rights of person, property. suffrage and
citizenship have been put in peril by q
detect of the law. Attorneys are detailed
to address them. Resolutions are intro.
duced which, from their partisan charac.
ter and the glibness of their phraseology.
raise a suspicion that they came from that
prolific mint Of mischief lawyers
Office.
A meeting Of the people opposed to the
''usurpation Of Kellogg" assemblies.
More lawyers to address the people. One
voluble attorney declaims in evaporation
of damages against the ships in the river
and the troops in the field. Another
makes q sapient suggestion that President
Grant intends to run for another term,
and that these ships and troops are the
skirmish line of his grand advance to
conquer the election.
Our condemnation Of a political commit
tee Of lawyers to direct the canvass is not
based on any mere partisan apprehension.
The attorneys are bad political advisers,
and have advised the White League into
every trouble and violation of law into
which they have fallen. Your average
attorney will find right of action for your
on his OK or his ass OF anything
that is his. if you will find fee. We'd
derburu. an attorney. solved the political
relations between the colonies and the
mother country by explaining that they
were already represented in Parliament.
They were holden as '.parcel Of the manor
Of East Greenwich
1t is very dangerous principle to dis.
card merchants, factors, planters and me-
chanics, and commit the public peace to
a profession whose very bread depends
on the strife Of their constituents.
That these opinions have very high au-
thority will be shown by the quotation
which follows. Mr.. Burke-not our iras.
chile political opponent-was called on
to explain his opinion Of the French revo.
luton, and thus explained one chief cause
of the blood and ruin which flowed from
that saddest phase Of national insanity:
A majority of the members who attended
the national assemblies of France was com.
posed Of practitioners at the law-nOt of
leading advocates. the glory of the bar. bu.
for the far greater part OF the inferior. un.
learned. mechanical. merely instrumental
members of the profession. There were
distinguished exceptions, but the general
was OF obscure provincial advo.
Gates, stewards Of petty LEGAL jurisdictions.
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train Of tic ministers of municipal litigation.
The tomenters Of the paltry ~ar Of riNage ger.
alton.
Who could conceive that men who are
habitually .neddling. daring. subtle. active
of litigous disposition and inauiring minds.
would easily fall back into their old con.
dition of Obscure contraction. and low.
iaboriOus and Improbable chicane. They
must join in any project which could pro
cure tor them Hiyous constitution which
could lay open to them those inntmerablc
lucrative jobs ,clich follor in The train Of all
great conclusions and revolutions in the
State, and particularly in all great and VIC.
lent lamentations of property. Would it
be expected that they would attend to the
of property whose existence had
always depended MpOts rhaterer rendered
property Questionable. Htigous and insecure!
Such was the opinion of one of the
wisest and most sagacious statesman that
ever lived. Its correctness was verified by
results. Men who have no productive
except in the strife of others are
unsafe advisers Of the planter. the ,ner-
chant. the landlord and the laborer, whose
subsistence depends on social peace.
4 HIGHLY IMPORTANT ALLIANCE.
While diplomatic negotiations have
been going on between those high con-
tracing parties. the Governor Of the State
Of Louisiana and the registration officers,
parties of the first part. and the Demo-
t1o &;vo