Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-07-15

No men know better than the lawyer
. themselves. what heavy share their pr
. fession is suspected of having in the il
: morallties ofthe times. Ii is TO little Ell
that good men mourn over the state
things, while whole guild of inhuenti
! men can be relied on, for money, to d
fend it.
If il be true, as affirmed sometime
that "the Lato is an erii," it ceriainl
should be the aim Of those, who claim
be its expounders, TO mitigate, not aggr'
vate. the ills it is destined to work. A
its professed aim is justice and equity.
the sense that these excellencies belong {
God, its Official operators should see thai
to this excellence, it ever tends. What
justice and equity is, usually, understood
and, therefore, there can be slight excus
for any, even the unprofessional. and mucl
less the protested interpreter of law, il
departing from them.
But the Bar, as we'll as LaD, is helC
as unfriendly to public virtue. Publ,
criticisms, on the subject, have been few,
the unpublished disapprovals, many. Il
is claimed, too, that the chivalrous course
that distinguished, formerly, the Bar o.
this country, is fast disappearing. Few,
seemingly, are left to maintain that high
sense of professional honor, that was SC
justly claimed by the generations gone.
Doubtless now, as in former times, many
are to be found, who are not only an orDa-
ment to our best society, but who are
main stays of our institutions, still, as an
order, the tendency is downward. For
this there is cause enough. notice
The great increase of their number. Ii
it be granted that expounders of law are
public necessity, it cannot be that SO many
are needed to that end. Besides, the
very surplus. of which the people have
the most cause to complain, are, usually,
unequal to such expounding. This is not
the end for which the Bar, in this country,
is multiplying so fast. Personal ends ac-
count for it. The number admitted to the
N. Y. Bar in single day, lately, was one
hundred and twenty A sad omen for the
future.
On candidates to the English Bar, there
are some salutary restraints. Even of him
who holds a Bachelors Degree, four gears
10 admission, must be passed
n some recognized office. And. where
here is no such degree, seren gears is the
period for which the student is matricula-
ed. Who does not see how much better
his is than IS that hasty course adopted
lere? Besides that there will be fewer ad.
nitted, those that are must be more ma.
ured and better disciplined, and will
now better that relation into which their
is to introduce them. To such
he epithet, "learned,' will not be alto.
ether inapplicable; nor will society be
likely to suffer from the unripenesS off
he additional gentleman. While am
lad to know many admitted in this coun-
ry are persons of liberal culture, it is, |
link, substantially true, that large mum.
ers are not.
BY such it is TO be feared, tho respon-
Utilities Of their new place, in society,
I'LL be imperfectly understood. So much
round is there for this fear, that thew
ave been sometimes suspected Of embit-
ring disputes, that necessity miqht be
'eated which would require their legal
'rUiceS
1t may be farther said, that the nice
oral sense, in their struggle for lNeli.
GOD, is very liable to become sadly blunt
], and, as high etiquette is practically
compatible with straitened support, it
ay not be subject Of surprise. if the
ne ethics be exchanged for a modified
'orality!
For this state Of things, l can see but
ne remedy,-greatly raise the conditions
admission to the Bar, and. influential
wyers sternly refuse to defend criminals. ,
ii honor to the great German Lawyer,
ERR LAsKER. who having successfully car. /,
ed through a very important case for t
preventative, at Berlin Of foreign gov. I
'nment, said, chad your cause not been i
'od one would not have undertaken it G
ALL"
1t the increase continue on the scale
lopted at present, it is difficult 10 see n
w such an increase of legal business as c
livelihood of such armies of men must il
quire, can come much short of pubzic Il
nm. =
Indeed to the future candidates them f
Ives it ought to bc said that it Impress $,
even their friends, unfavorably to see G.
Oh head-toag haste to enter upon that "
ofession, and so little regard had to a Ii
ness for 1t. y
Ii BY his oath, lawyer feels bound to @,
fend thu UrOn0 tbop M T,r.L. cI