The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-03-12
CRUSADE AGAINST LAWYERS.

the State, and there about 100000 voters
And when they 60 to tho Legislature they
should not be blamed for all the bad legis-
lation for they arc in Il minority there.
Will anybody undertake to prove that
lawyers arc less patriotic than other people
They have served the State as faithfully in
peace and in war as any other class Of citi.
zens. Let any old soldier say if this is
not true. And everybody remembers with
what unsclfshness and fidelity they worked
in 1876, on the stump and everywhere
ele they were needed, for the success of
the democracy.
1t is getting to be quite the style among
low order of political reformers to abuse
and vilify lawyers in the abstract. But
lawyers do not exist in the abstract.
they arc re real living, acting personalities,
known and observed of the communities
in which they live. They are the kiusmcn
and friends and companions of other poo
| pie of all other cailings in the community
| they are officers in the churches, trustees
in the schools and colleges; and in every
| other way, in their individual relationship,
stand on their merits as other men in other
professions and callugs do. Let anyone
| take the trouble to call over the list of law
yers he is acquainted with-the individual
members Of the profession and see if they
do not compare tavorably, in point of char
acter and personal worth-csccntials of
true manhood-with the average man in
other walks of life. There arc black
sheep among the lawyers only as there are
BLACK sheep among farmers, merchants
and mechanics.
If one has valid objection to lawyer,
let him make it an individual objection as
he does in the case of merchant or farms
err, and not abuse the whole profession for
| the faults of one.
1t may be set down as a pretty safe rule
that the man who is eternaliy abusing the
lawyers is a demagogue and is trying to
advance his own aspirations by appealing
to prejudice and passion.
This is not written in defense Of lawyers
/ 10. they mead notlcfcnsa but rs = pro
test against mean species of dcmagogi.m
that wouIi prcjusice one class of citizens
against another, ihr political purposes for
it is a significant fact that all the abuse of
lawyers ccnters in politics.
But how do the lawyers regard thi,
abuse of themselves ? We do not know,
but think it very likely they regard it with
contempt, as all other sensible people do.
They know the purpose aad they know
that everybody else whose opinion is worth
anything knows it also :; and so they move
on serenely and uncoucerncd. They know,
and they feel tina. every other sensible man
knows, that they are measured by their
character and not by their callng-as
other men arc. And they know more than
that-and right here We would put flea
in the car of the anti-awycr' howlcr-
they know that the more lawyers are
abused, tn, more will a discriminating and
justice,loving public come to their vindica>
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