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<p>is <hi rend="underline">that</hi> of hireling advocates. In the breast of the hireling advocate<lb/> | |||
the chance of magnitude in that shape in which it is opposed to<lb/> | |||
appropriate moral aptitude is at its maximum: it amounts to a<lb/> | |||
moral certainty. He lets himself out to hire indiscriminately to<lb/> | |||
the party injured, or the injurer, to the guiltless man unjustly accused,<lb/> | |||
or the malefactor, according as he happens to be retained:<lb/> | |||
but it uniformly on the side of the party in the wrong that his predilection<lb/> | |||
ranges itself. In the party who being in the wrong, is conscious<lb/> | |||
of his being so, he looks for his best customer: & in case<lb/> | |||
of success <add>the more flagrantly his client is in the wrong</add> the more illustrious the triumph of his advocate: the<lb/> | |||
more conspicuous the proof afforded of the union of appropriate<lb/> | |||
active with appropriate intellectual aptitude, with inference to the<lb/> | |||
function of defeating the ends of Justice. Whatsoever falsehood or<lb/> | |||
insincerity in any other shape the advocate has occasion to defile<lb/> | |||
himself with, the deluded public suffers him to scrape off from<lb/> | |||
his own shoulders & lay upon those of his clients: his whole life is<lb/> | |||
thereby a life of falsehood & insincerity. Exclusions applying to the<lb/> | |||
faculty of giving testimony on the ground of moral inaptitude, are<lb/> | |||
if ever sincerely intended, a very foolishly devised instrument for<lb/> | |||
avoidance of mendacity & <gap/> of deception & injustice</p> | |||
<p>But if there were a sort of man on whom a note of eminent<lb/> | |||
untrustworthiness should be put for the instruction & guidance<lb/> | |||
of a Jury it should be, the hireling adovocate. When the man impregnated<lb/> | |||
to the very marrow with the practice of mendacity & the<lb/> | |||
love of injustice is raised to the Judicial Bench, an appropriate<lb/> | |||
<gap/> dress is put upon him & the silly & deluded multitude<lb/> | |||
behold in him justice personified. </p> | |||
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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 & 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 adovocate. 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
dress is put upon him & the silly & deluded multitude
behold in him justice personified.
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