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righteous employment, as others declare, it behooves those who
believe in and cherish them to so wisely and successfully apply
them in the control and adjustment of these questions as not
only to prove their strength and virtue, but to make them so
secure in the public confidence and the structure of our laws as
that our history will not again record either their opposition or
distrust. Such is the call of this day and generation to the
American Bar. Not in its career or in that of its brotherhood
across the seas has there come stronger appeal either to its
courage or its ability, or more splendid opportunity for its
demonstration of those qualities that upon other supreme occasions
have confirmed its position as an order of men devoted to the
great cause of popular rights, liberty under the law, and stable
and orderly government.
When we recall the service the Bar has rendered to the progress
of mankind; to the recognition of its right to live its life in this
world under conditions of equality and in the possession of
happiness, and its privilege to work out its own destiny according
to individual worth and industry under God's open sky and
be secure in the fruits of its honest labors; to the liberty of lawful
pursuit, the right of individual conscience and private judgment,
and, in a word, to freedom in all things that give nobility,
usefulness and contentment to life and fill its days with high
impulse and earnest purpose; when we remember how it has
resisted despotism, but only in the interest of a common obedience
to the law of the land; its jealous care of inalienable rights
and its equal concern for the authority of established government;
how it has contributed always to the march of ideas, but
has never been willing to make experiment of those things which
lie at the root of private character and constitute the base of
national existence; and its constant leadership in the vindication
and attainment in government of what has made for the wonderful
advancement and enduring triumphs of this race, but
of which it has never made any less noble use than that which
conserved permanence and security;-when we remember these
achievements of this profession, we are able to form a somewhat
more just conception of its value and relation to the State and
possess a somewhat better perspective of the broad fields that
have engaged its powers and still call for their employment.
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Texas Bar Association. The Bar as an Institution of the State, book, July 2, 1913; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38099/m1/6/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.