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1823. Feby. 28.
Greece. J.B's Observations on particular Articles.

In a country in which the a sort of imaginary law,
called unwritten, and which has so much more writing
belonging to it than that which is called written, has place,
the choice made of advocates in Judges from the order of advocates,
has an unhappily existing reason, adequate or inadequate,
as well as a pretence. There being no rules of action really
in existence, the hireling advocate is the only sort of man
who can be regarded as an adept in the art of speaking
of the case, whatever it be, in a manner that supposes
the existence of a rule of action, and in the use of that
jargon which has been employed in palming upon the
public that fiction in the character of a truth. To him
alone is sufficiently familiar that branch of the thieve's cant. To keep The case of keeping up on foot this disastrous reason, this unhappy
necessity, is one cause of the care taken of by the fraternity
of lawyers to keep their rule of action from ever
receiving real existence. By the impossibility of defending
himself, by his own powers, against those injuries which
the fraternity are in league to inflict on him, he a man is thus
under the miserable deplorable necessity of purchasing, at the ruinous
price set upon it, their essentially treacherous assistance.
Bonaparte being a Despot, was, by the vigor of his mind,
enabled to add to his vulgar triumphs, two transcendental
ones: triumphs over the two bitterest and most mischievous
enemies of the human race – established priests and lawyers.
Over the lawyer tribe, the main cause and token of
of his triumph was the establishment of a really-existing
body of law, having for it's object not indeed the greatest happiness –
not of the greatest number, but of the one, Napoleon Bonaparte:
it sacrificed, wheresoever competition appeared to
show itself, the interest of all, to the interest of that one.
But, had it been several times worse than it is, France
would still have beheld and felt in it a matchless benefit.
The citizens of the Anglo-American United States have
thrown off the yoke of a Monarchy, have thrown off
the yoke of an Aristocracy, have many of them, thrown off the yoke
of an established priesthood. But the yoke of the hireling
advocate still presses upon their necks: their courage
has been sufficient to free them from the yoke of the English
Monarch: but their wisdom has not yet been sufficient
to liberate them from
the yoke imposed upon
them by the most corrupt
and profligate
of his tools.
Oh weakness!

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