The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-05-12
EAneol.s as a Lawyer.

In the amount OF legal learning which
he possessed as fund of ksIowiedre and
from which he could draw as he pleased.
he was not the equal OF many lawyers I
have known. Somebody has said the great
est lawyer is the man who in the least
| time can f1nd the man who knows the law.
If law question was submitted to Lin
coin, or rose In case, by his power of an
alysis, by looking at the statement of the
principle in few books, and by logical in
'duction, he knew how to reach the root
| and marrow OF the matter, and do It accss-
rately. What he saw he saw clearly. an3
what lie stated or demonstrated he stated
Q: demonstrated clearly. Many a time I
have seen an old farmer in the court room
a! attention for an hour listening TO Mr..
Lincoln IN the argument Of dry law
proposition. lie made il so clear and so
plain, illustrated and enforced it by com.
parsons and arguments so forcibIe and east
~ compreiiended, that the farmer UNDER
stood Just as much about ir as the court
dlu; As trial lawyer, he had few equals
and no superiors. He was as hard a man
20 peat IN closely contested case ms ever
met. Lie Was wise In knowing what to
attempt and what to let alone. He was fair
70 the court, the jury, and his adversary,
but candor eompels me to say that he 6v
practice learned there was power in this
He was candid and he was fair, but ne
Knew how to make lust the most of this.
as he entered the trial, where most LAWYERS
object. he would say he ''rcckoneds' it
Mea.a pc Ialr 20 let this in or That. and
sometimes. when his adversary could not
prove what Mr.. Lincoln knew to be the
truth, he would say he ssreckoned,, II
wollc be fair to admit the truth to be so
and SO. When lie did object TO the court,
after ne neayd his objection answered, he |
HEalt n 4
wrong.p New, about the time he had |
pracf10ad tsbis three quarters through a /
ease, 1T liis adversary didn't understand |
him he would wake up in few min I
ntes nndlng that ne bad feared the Grerks /
'soe late, and wake up to find himself beat I
lie was Wise as serpent in the trial of
cause. but tell you have got too many
scars from his blows to certify he was
harmless as dove. When the whole thing
Is unraFeled the adversary begins to see
tIal LIlae WlaI ne was so blaDdiy giving away
was simply what he couldn't get and keep, i
BY giving away six points and carrying
tho seventh he carried his case and the
whole case hanging OH the seventh, he
tsaoed everything of that would give him
the least aid IN carrying that. ANY man
who took Mr. Lincoln for simple-niinded
man Would very soon wake up on his back
u the ditch. By this do not mean that
ne had cunning. and beat by trick. He
had nothing Of this, for he never cheated
nus adversary BE simply knew that the
showing this, so long as you gave him the |
shears and q chance at the hair. 90 long I1e
lgould give away everything else with the |
Utmost 1rankness and Kindness; but il ven,
90, foeind out the same fact, and went |
U hiT@ to- jolist him from his position and
AXE away his weapons, then he gave uotIs-
ng, but arose like . lion awakened IN HIS
air. His STOPPING form Strengthened. his
lneniar features acquired force and cx-