New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-28
REFRACTORY CLIENTS.

Ten powerful attorneys addressed, oral,
or by letter, the reputation meeting o
Friday night. Lawyer Mari was absent
being at the other end Of the line, con
Quoting the telegaphic communications
One other gentleman, physician anc
surgeon, spoke. That was all No large
property holder oppressed by taxation
no mechanic, unemployed, and anxious
to build or repair no workman or "a
borer, begging his landlord not to turn
his family upon the pavement; 10 letters
from wives or widows without bread, OF
sewing girls, whose needles rust for want
Of work-none of these. Lawyers alone
detained against the restoration Of CONT
dence abroad and harmony al home.
Their speeches virtually say: 1t IS better
that you should starye on for two
or three possibly for SIX years, than
consent to pacltication which has
been made when it does not meet our APP
proyal. It is very plain that the aver
age attorney has no. as much investment
at stake as a merchant, a builder or
property holder. The capital OF an at
! torney has cost him much money and
labor, but his present exhibit consists
in a sagacious head, a voluble tongue, a
few cases of valuable authorities. 1t
does not cost as much per day to run bis
tongue as If would do to run an ordinary
blrr-saw, or planning mill. It would be
bat fair compliment to the professional
ability of those gentlemen to remark that
if it should become professionally their
duty, they could with equal ability have
argued the opposite side Of the PROPOSE
tons of Friday night. For this are they
lawyers. On the other hand, there is a
long list of names Endorsing the
very adjustment WHICH the attorneys
condemn. This list comprises a great
many of the Conservative merchants who
have been heretofore the political clients
of the attorneys. These clients may have
contributed to the costs Of the suit in the
matter Of McEnery against Kellogg. Some
body, the Bulletin says, has advanced two
hundred thousand dollars on the verdict.
Now, these clients are tired Of this suit
They think there is no end to it. They |
feel that the city is impoverished BY its
political quarrels. They suffer from the |
competition of rivals. Official statements |
show that while New Orleans is next to |
New York in the value of her exports, she
stands the sixth after New York in the
value Of her imports. The merchants
understand this to mean that while
the cotton is exported from New
Orleans, the money which it brings
is laid out in Northern and Western
goods. SO think the commercial clients.
The real estate clients are still worse off.
4 merchant can pay up his rents, close his
store, take down his sign here and put it
Up in some town where he is allowed to
'ell goods to any customer without ask
ng his politics. The real estate owner
an not possibly move his house out Of
he way Of the civil sheriff, with his red
lag and its terrible motto, Cash on
he spot" The mechanic and the me-
hanics wife, the laborer and his family
dependent on his wages, are all clients
those investments and interests differ
cry widely from those Of the
ttorney. They differ SO widely that
'hatever legal obligation befall client
he sheriff and attorney must have part
f the miserable remnant of his means.
,ow these clients have signed or accepted .
n agreement to dismiss the suit Of
IcEnery against Kellogg. agreed.
nd SO let it pass from the political docket
'rever. The attorneys come into court
I'D denounce the agreement. They say
leir clients are crazy and do not under
and their rights. Their clients have
shonored themselves. That the agents
no have made this agreement have VIC =
ted and exceeded their power Of attor ;,
y. That the order Of dismissal should
; expunged from the minutes, the case !,
the names Of the seven attor- ;.
,ys marked pro quarente on the margin,
c defendant ruled to additional security
r costs, and everything be restored to =
e statu quo to await the further and final !,
der Of the people in the premises. !,
This last demand seems to US wholly
lexampled and unprotessional. The =,
,ht Of plaintiff to dismiss suit, or Of y
client to with draw a demand, has never
en- question ned, and will not be aban- :
med, We apprehend, in the case stated. ',
ION the order Of the attorney for the :.
ents and against the protest Of tie a. 9:
pntS :.