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is admitted: but if his regard for truth be such that he will
not give a false answer, he is held out, as an object of reproach, a
man to whose testimony no regard can safely be given & as such
rejected. But to the man of habitual mendacity, any such man of
conspicuously & painfully manifested veracity, is an object of the
deepest hatred & vengeance & to gratify this malignant passion
he scruples not to make sacrifice of the injured party, whose misfortune
it has been to have need of this testimony of this too veracious
witness.

In a country in which a sort of imaginary law called unwritten
& which has so much more writing belonging to it, than
that which is called written, has place, the choice made of Judges
from the order of advocates has an unhappily existing reason,
adequate or inadequate as will as a pretense. There being no
rule 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 may be, in a manner that supposes the
existence of a rule of action & 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 . The care of keeping on foot
this disastrous reason, this unhappy necessity in one cause
of the care taken by the fraternity of Lawyers to keep the 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
a man is thus under the 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 & most mischievous
enemies of the human race — established priests & lawyers.
Over the lawyer tribe, the main cause & token of his triumph
was — the establishment of a really existing body of Law, having
for its object not indeed the greatest happiness of the
greatest number, but of the one Napoleon Bonaparte: it sacrificed
wheresoever competition appeared to them itself, the interest of

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