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The forlorn and despised wretch finds in his advocate, for the occasion, an unyielding friend, whom no blandishment can seduce, nor threats terrify. However timid and sensitive his nature, the exigenicies in the profession, the influence of his bretheren, and public opinion, all demand unwavering ferventness, and the has long since acknowledged, by their involuntary confidence, that in general the equisition is fulfilled. The man from whose lips are often heard bold and moving denunciations of oppression, strong and manly reasonings upon mutual rights, and eloquent appeals to the softer emotions of the heart cannot but be the depository of popular grievancies, and the championof popular priviliges.

The whole professional training of lawyers, & the whole tenor of their professional career, tend to make them be viewed by the people as the peculiar guardians of their rights. The distinctions of social right doing, - between what society may, must, or must not do, are the subjects of their daily investigation, and they are engaged incessantly in maintaining these distinctions by public argument. It is not strange, therefore that they soonest snuff the tainted breeze of tyranny, and most clearly discern the remote tendencies of illegal power.

The forlorn and despised wretch finds in his advocate, for the occasion, an unyielding friend, whom no blandishment can seduce, nor threats terrify. However timid and sensitive his nature, the exigenicies in the profession, the influence of his bretheren, and public opinion, all demand unwavering ferventness, and the has long since acknowledged, by their involuntary confidence, that in general the equisition is fulfilled. The man from whose lips are often heard bold and moving denunciations of oppression, strong and manly reasonings upon mutual rights, and eloquent appeals to the softer emotions of the heart cannot but be the depository of popular grievancies, and the championof popular priviliges.