Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-03

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kindly human sympathy between two openly
confessed scamps than there is in that calm,
respectable recognition that you and I, dear
reader, exhibit when we happen to oppose
each other with our respective virtues.
aAnd yen get the appaleP
II will
And he didl And by singular coincidence
got the district attorneyship also. And
with a deed for one-half 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 delicacy in the legal
profession which we literary folk ought to
Initiate.
The United States lostl Which meant ruin
and destruction to the "Blue Mass Company "
who had bought from a paternal and benef-
cent government lands which didn't belong to
II. The Mexican grant, Of course, ante-dated
the occupation Of the mine by Concho' "Ies,
Pedro. ct al, as we'll as by the blue Mass
Company" and the solitary partners, Biggs
and Thatcher. More than that, it swallowed
ND their Improvements. 1t made Biggs and
Thatcher responsible to Garcia for all the
money the grand master OF avarice had made
out of it. Mr.. District Attorney was ap-
narently distressed, but resigned. MeSsrs.
Bigrs and Thatcher wcro really distressed and
combative.
And then, to advance q few years in this
chronicle, began real litigation with earnest
ness, vigor, courage, zeal anil belief on the
part of Biggs and Thatcher, and ~technicali-
ties, delay, e~quivocation and q general
F~abian-like policy on the part OF Garcin,
Roscommon, ct al. OF all these tedious pro-
cesses I note hut one, which for originality
and audacity Of conception appears to me to
Indicate more clearly tho temper and civiliza-
ton Of tho epoch. A subordinate officer or
the district court refused to obey the man.
date ordering q transcript Of the record to be
sent up TO the United States supreme court.
1t is to DO regretted that tho name OF TINS
Eplesian youth, who thus fired tho domo Oh
our constitutional liberties, should have
been otherwise so unimportant as 10
be confined to the dusty records OF
that doubtful court Of which he was
a doubtful s~ervitor, and that his claim
to immortality ceased with his double-feed
service. But there still stands on record a
letter by his young gentleman, a~rraigning
tho legal wisdom of the land, which Is not en-
tirelv 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 procur-
inc the legislation of his functions out of its
local fingers into tho larger palm of its own
attorney.
These various processes Of law and equity,
which, when exercised practically in the af-
fairs of ordinary business, might have occu-
MED a few months timc, dragged, chung, re-
tronraded, or advanced slowly during n
period Of eight or nine years. But the strong
arms of Biggs and Thatcher held possession,
and possibly, by 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
Biggs, 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, as
It were, made over his share in. trust to his
comrade and died. Whereat, from that time
henceforward, Royal Thatcher reigned in his
stead.
And so, having anticipated the legalrecord,
wa will 90 bach TO tho various human in
tercsts that helped to make it up.
To begin with Roscommon: To do
Justice to his later conduct and ex-
preston, it must be remembered that
when he accepted the claim for the
Red Rock rancho" yet unquestioned, from
tho hands Of Garcia, he was careless, or ut
least unsuspicious of fraud. 1t was not until
he had experienced the intoxication OF htiga-
ton that he felt, somehow, that he was q
wronged and defraudcd man, but with the
obstinacy of defrauded men, preferred to ar
raign some one fact or individual as tho i'm
polling cause of his wrong, rather than the
various circumstances that led to it. To this
simple mind it was made patent that the
"Blue 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 a fresh count in this gen.
eral indictment. Every delay towards this
Il ;.,,,E 90 irbfp-n1thnunh nnn1a Inv hia
own lawyer-was 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. The possibility
of his losing this mere speculation affected
him more strongly than if he had already
paid Town tho million he expected to get from
the mine. | don't know that | have indicated
rs plainly as / might that universal prefer
cnce on the part of mankind to get something
from nothing, and to acquire tho largest re-
turn for the least possible expenditure, but /
question my right to say that Roscommon
was much more reprehensible than his fell
lows.
But it told upon him as 1t did upon
all over whom the spirit Of tho muir
dered Concho b~rooded-upon all whom
avarice alternately fattered and tortured.
From his quiet gains in his legitimate
business, from the little capital accumu-
lated through industry and economy, he Law
ished thousands on this chimera Of his fancy.
He grew grizzled and worn over his self-im-
posed delusion; he no longer jested with his
customers, regardless of quality or station or
Importance; lie had cliques to mollify, enemies
to placate, friends to reward. The grocery
suffered; through giving food and Judgment
TO cloudsof unimpeachable witnesses before the
land commission and the district court, 'Mrs.
Ros,n found herself losing money. Even tho
bar failed; there was u party of "Blue Mass"
employees who drank at tho opposite fonda
and cursed the RoScommon claim over the
liquor. The calm, mechanical Indifference
with which Roscommon had served his Gus
toners was gone. The towel was no longer
used after its ~perfunctory fashion; tho