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184 MR WEBSTER.-THE LEGAL PROFESSION.
or so full of penitence, that it was cruel to continue
their confinement. If these autobiographies are true,
Phrenology is false; but, unfortunately for the veracity
of the narrators, their vicious actions form a
striking contrast to their professed virtuous dispositions.
Mr Webster.-On my return from Charlestown, I
visited the Court House, and heard Mr Webster address
a jury in a suit about paying a contractor for
making a road. His manner of speaking is calm,
deliberate, clear, and forcible.
The Legal Profession in Britain and Massachusetts.-I
have had several conversations with gentlemen
of the law in Boston, regarding the combination
of the functions of solicitor and counsel in the same
individual in their courts. They stated that the impediment
which it might be supposed to present to
men of great talent in rising into the higher walks
of the profession, is removed by the practice of adopting
junior partners; while it is attended with some
advantages, one of which is, that it checks that tendency
to falsehood and exaggeration in the pleadings
of counsel which sometimes disgrace the English and
Scotch bar. In the great majority of lawsuits, both
litigants are seeking to obtain only what they sincerely
believe to be justice; but there are instances
of unprincipled and vindictive clients who resort to
the law as an engine of extortion or oppression. The
division of the offices of solicitor and counsel aids
such persons in pursuing their nefarious objects. In
London or Edinburgh an unprincipled client will find
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/224/?q=%221838%3F%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.