The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-12-25

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adviser was seleeted-able,
cautious, conservative. Ny II
;, lied with the utmost confdene e.
his opinion in all matters, a}ynop
with the greatest alacrity, the ssadal
stipend for retaining his counsel. He
had always counselled my friend to
the same effect, on the above subject,
as his first legal adviser did. am
sure that Mr.. Douglass knew both of
these legal advisers and esteemed them
highly.
Sometime ago, however, another
attorney in the same town challenged
the right Of my friend to collect any
such fees; my friend was as surprised
and a. indignant as if the lawfulness
of his marriage contract had been
called in question, and sending at once
for his legal adviser was astonished to
end, when the question was submitted
to him, that he begsn to heritate, fill
and tack, reef and unfurl, hem and
haw, and asked for time to Investigate
. matter, that my friend had bean 80
advised about as to consider as well
settled as the course Of the stars in
their orbits, for, mark you, my friends
legal adviser was Que of the directors
of his bank, and when, in the course
OF the usual bank examinations, he
came across overdue paper he was
very iuquisitive to know if it had not
beer protested, and cauti ned against
the dangers of a failure to > r'es'.
My friend waited for l.. hours to
get an opinion, aud when he called mp
his adviser he begged for one hour
more, and finally went in to say that
the 'usages and customs of banking"
he thought, would make good de-
fence, but he could find no settled de-
cision on the point.
So much, for how much of law is
settled beyond question.
The fact is, that the lawyers, like
other me0, read the law according to
their temperament. The cautious and
timid men unconsciously stress the
prshibitirs features of law; bold and |
sapguine men stress the psrmissire fea-
lures of law. The one sees the lions |
in the way; the other sees that they |
are chained.
Why shouldn't the town council
order an election? Must everything
stop until the construction of everv
LAWYER on every Law be settled?
Doesn't the law provide the proper
tribunal for teating what ia law aud
what is not Law? Can any damage
come of this save few dollars cf eI-
pehse incurred by the election, and
that, 80 far as the writer is concerned,
he himself would personally pay,
rather than have self-appointed judges
declare what may be done aud what
may not be done.
Is the gentleman afraid to trust the
verdict of the community that he balks
80 before he is spared?
Shall the men in the community who
Waot to do something, snd do with
their might what they find to do." be
restrained in laudsble efforts by men
who seek rather to find what can not
be done?
Il there anything of more i'm portance
to the public than the matter Of trans
portatiou of the varied products CON-
ing in and going out2 Doesn't the
rate Of transportation enter into the
cost Of the crust Of corn bread that
eVery econ cranchesEapd must not the
in the multitude of his
matters remember always the cost of
Lreights? Must it not be estimated
whenever aEchild is born into the
world, marriage is celebrated, 8
uneral takes place? Doesn't it de- +
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