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is that of hireling advocates. In the breast of the hireling advocate
the chance of magnitude in that shape in which it is opposed to
appropriate moral aptitude is at its maximum: it amounts to a
moral certainty. He lets himself out to hire indiscriminately to
the party injured, or the injurer, to the guiltless man unjustly accused,
or the malefactor, according as he happens to be retained:
but it uniformly on the side of the party in the wrong that his predilection
ranges itself. In the party who being in the wrong, is conscious
of his being so, he looks for his best customer: & in case
of success the more flagrantly his client is in the wrong the more illustrious the triumph of his advocate: the
more conspicuous the proof afforded of the union of appropriate
active with appropriate intellectual aptitude, with inference to the
function of defeating the ends of Justice. Whatsoever falsehood or
insincerity in any other shape the advocate has occasion to defile
himself with, the deluded public suffers him to scrape off from
his own shoulders & lay upon those of his clients: his whole life is
thereby a life of falsehood & insincerity. Exclusions applying to the
faculty of giving testimony on the ground of moral inaptitude, are
if ever sincerely intended, a very foolishly devised instrument for
avoidance of mendacity & themes of deception & injustice

But if there were a sort of man on whom a note of eminent
untrustworthiness should be put for the instruction & guidance
of a Jury it should be, the hireling advocate. When the man impregnated
to the very marrow with the practice of mendacity & the
love of injustice is raised to the Judicial Bench, an appropriate
masquerade dress is put upon him & the silly & deluded multitude
behold in him justice personified. Oftener has the Blackamore
been rendered white by dipping, than the hireling advocate converted,
by a seat on the Judicial Bench, into a lover of justice.
Every now then in England passes the following scene. Advocate
or Judge to witness — Do you believe in the existence of a God?
Witness to Judge — Yes. Judge thereupon to Advocate — Proceed
with him — he is a good witness —. Advocate or Judge to witness —
Do you believe in the existence of a God? Witness — No. Judge —
out with him; his testimony is not receivable. Thus then if the
Atheist will, to so indefensible a question, give a false answer, he is

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