The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-04-03
lRY SAVOYARD.l

today and he will bid you come next
week for his opinion. He is labor
iious. runs down the decisions, and
W hen you again enter his Office he II
ready to advise you He does not
pester his mind as to the philosoph-
les OF the law, though he has the eyes
of a lynx for it's technicalities. His
mission is to obtain the judgment and
earn his fee To his mind law Is law
because the courts have held it to be
so.
There is a higher class Of lawyers
they who are endowed with q gen
ius for the science of Jurisprudence
and have a profound sense OF justice.
They make a study of principles,
which they afix TO their minds as the
mathematician fixes the multiplied
ton table to his calculations Con-
suit such a lawyer and he is not neo-
essitated to turn to the authorities TO
learn the law.
The Gordian knot OF it he will un-
loose.
Familiar as his garter.
This man has saturated his mind
Coke on Llttleton, Blackstone, Fearne
Chitty, and the rest of the great mas
ters John G. Carlisle once had q biz
case pending in the supreme court of
one of the Ohio Valley states that his
political duties as speaker of congress
did not allow him to devote much at
tention to- A few days before this
cause was to be argued he casually
examined the record and said to his
T.
ton involved herein. | do not know
that 1t has ever been decided in this
country or in England, but if it has
been adjudicated the finding ought to
have been so-and-so," and then he
made his meaning clear to the secre-
tary, who searched in the supreme
court library for two days and found
the very decisions of the prescience
of Carlisle had pointed to. Armed
with them he gained the case, though
the argument he made to the bench
consumed less time than thirty min
utes. Aaron Burr, a very successful
practitioner, declared that to be law
which is clearly stated and logically
maintained" Lawyers of the class Of
Carlisle call that law which is found
ed on justice, as interpreted by hu-
man reason.
North Carolina has been celebrated
for century for the rugged learning
of it's bar. The Old North State can
show more lawyers familiar with Ba-
cons "Abridgments" than New York
can show Romulus Il. Linney,
North Carolina mountaineer, knows
more black letter lore than all Har-
ward college, the Dane law school, in
cluded. He can trace every principle
to It's source, and give the human
reason for it's birth He can apply
that principle to any given facts, and
if he misses English grammar a mile
he hits fair and square the bull's-eye
Of English Jurisprudence.
Risden T. Bennett, another North
Carolina mountaineer was one of the
first lawyers in congress the four
years-1883-7. The Forty-ninth cong
ress, restricted by a written consti-
tuition that divorces church from state
to throw the Mormon
church into chancery BENEFITS
speech on that question would have
added luster to the legal career of
or Webster, of Black or
Benjamin. Old Ben Hardin himself
could not have put it stronger. His
speech was as homely as meat ak,
and when he sat down the other side
felt that it had been chopped to sau-
sage with meat ak.
The way they make great lawyers
in North Carolina is to set them to
reading the text books by the light
Of pine knot fires.
Lee S. Oyerman, United States Sen
ator from North Carolina in the pre-
sent congress, is another lawyer
from the mountains of North Carolina
The family, English nonconformists,
settled on the coast at
Ourants Neck, in Perquimans county,
where the acres are broad and fertile
Some of them were Quakers, but they
to swell the ranks of
hat Rhode Island Quaker, Nathaniel
Greene, in his military operations
against Lord CORVALLIS. Leaving old
England for faith and freedom, the
0vermans did much to help build up
/ free commonwealth in the western
hemisphere, and men of that family
nave been prominent in North Caro-
ina since long before the revolution
Of '76.
Senator Overman was born in 1854,
and when he had fulfilled his second
lustrum, North Carolina, oppressed
and despoiled, was the province of a
'atrap and his minions. The bottom
rail was on top, and nothing but
loyalty and larceny had any CONNER
cial or political rating in the state
Of Nathaniel Macon and Zebulon B.
Vance; but there was left to North
Carolina the memories of her glor-
les from Kings Mountain to Gettys-
burg and these sustained her pride
and nerved her sons for the struggles
Of reconstruction
The boy Overman was educated in
the country schools, to and from
which he walked miles through field
and forest. His body was toughened by
labor and outdoor sport, and his mind
waxed with the vigor thus supplied
the muscle. In his earliest manhood
he was a teacher, and a short time
after he entered as fine a school as