The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-16
overwsc gray eyes on his American lawyer.
But he only said, "Yo have, Ell"

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prominent countrymen, who are 50 powerful
with all parties-men like you, my dear sir
) why, think you might III time become a
conservative at least more resigned to the
government"
Then the lcsseS and the greater scamp
looked at each other, and for a moment or
two felt "A warm, sympathetic, friendly emo
ton for each other, and quietly shook hands
Depend upon it there is "A great deal more
kindly human sympathy between two openly
confessed scamps than there is in that calm,
respectable recognition that you and |, dear
reader, exhibit when we happen to oppose
each other with our respective virtues,
"And yen get the appalet'
II will
And he did And bya singular coincidence
got the district attorneyship' also. And
with deed for one-hali of the Red
Rock rancho in his pocket sent a brother
lawyer in court TO appear for his client, the
United States, as against himself, Roscom-
mon, Garcia, ct al Wild horses could not
have torn him from this noble resolution.
There is an Undesirable delcacy in the legal
profession which we literary folk ought to
initiate
The United States lost. Which meant ruin
and destruction 10 the Blue Mass Company
who had bought from a paternal and benefi-
cent government lands which didn't belong to
it, The Mexican grant, of course, ante-dated
the occupation of the mine by Concho, Wiles,
Pedro, ct al, rs well rs by the "Buo Mass
/ Company and the solitary partners. Biggs
and Thatcher. More than that, it swallowed
NJ their improvements 1t made Bggs and
Thatcher responsible 10 Garcia for all the
money the grand master of avaricc had made
ont of it. Mr.. District Attorney was ap-
parcntly distressed, but resigned, McSsgs
Eiggs aud Thatcher wcro really distressed and
combativc
And then, to advance Il few years in this
chronicle, began real litigation with earnest
ness vigor, courage zeal AMI belief on tho
part of Big@s and Thatcher, and TECHNICAL
ties, delay, equiyocation and general
Fabian-likc policy on the part Of Garcia,
Roscommon ct al OF all these tedious pro-
ccs,es note hut one, which for originality
and audacity of conception appears to me to
indicate more clearly tho temper and civili2a-
ton of the epoch \ subordinate officer of
the district court refused to obey the man
date ordering Il tranScrip pit of the record to be
sent up to the United States supreme court.
II IS to be regretted that the name of this
EplcSan youth, who thus fired the dome of
our constitutional liberties, should have
been otherwise so unimpOrtaut as to
be confined to the dusty records Of
that doubtful court of which he was
a doubtful serytor, and that his Gain
to immortality ceased with his double-feed
service But there stiYl stands on record a
letter by this young gentleman, arraiSning
the legal wisdom of the land, which is not en-
tirely devoid OF amusement or even instruc-
ton to young men DESTROYS of obtaining pub
licity and capital Howbeit, the supreme
court was obliged to protect itself by procuI-
inc the legislation of his functions out of its
local fingers into the larger palm of its own
attorney.
These various processes of law and equity,
which, when exercised practically i'll the af-
fairs of ordinary business, might have occu
pied a few months time, dragged, chung, re-
trograded or advanced slowly during a
period of eight or nine years But the strong
arm. of Bggs and Thatcher held possession,
and possibly, 10y the same tactics employed
on the other side, arrested or delayed eject
ment, and so made and sold quicksilver, while
their opponents were spending gold until
Bggs, sorely hit in the interlacing of his ar
NOR, fell in the lists, his cheek growing
waxen and his strong arm feeble, and finding
himself in this sore condition, and passing, rs
il were, made over his share in trust to his
comrado and died Whereat, from that TINA
henccforward, Royal Thatcher reigned in h;s
stead.
And 50, having anticipated the legalrecord,
we will 60 back to the various human in
tercsts that helped to make it ".
To begin with Roscommon: TO do
Justice to his later conduct and ex-
preston, it must be remembered that
when be accepted the claim for the
"Red Rock rancho" yet unquestioned, from
the hands of Garcia, he was careless, or at
least uns,,spiciouS of fraud. 1t was not until
he had experienced the intOXication of litiga-
ton that he felt, somehow, that he was a
wronged and dcfraudcd man, but with the
obstnacy Of defrauded men, preferred to ar
raign some one fact or individual as tho inn
polling cause of his wrong, rather than the
various circumstances that led to it. To this |
simple mind it was made patent that the
"Bue Mass Company were making money
out of a mine which he claimed and which !
was not yet adjudged to them. Every dollar
they took out was fresh count i'll this gen
eral Indictment. Every delay towards this |
adjustment of riShtS-although made by his |
own lawyer-wus n personal wrong. The |
mere fact that there never was nor had been |
any quid pro quo for this immense property
that it had fallen to him for a mere song |
only added zest to his struggle. ThepoSsibility |
of his losing this mere speculation affected |
him more strongly than if he had already |
paid down the million he expected to get from |
the mine. don't know that | have indicated |
MS plainly rs | might that universal prefer |
ence on the part of mankind to get something |
from nothing. aud to acquire the largest re-
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