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Michigan Lawyers

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
June
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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Rev. S. Lovell, a y? niét in the Olive Branch, which is publishcd somo where "down east," is pleased {o be very wittj upon the lawyers and other good peoplc of Michigan. Hear him: "Notwithstandingall tlie wo.es pronounced upon lawyers in the Scripturo or otherwise, it scems that e very man in Michigan is determined to be one. The Legislature of that State has had under consideration, several petitions praying, cthat every man may be admitted to the bar.' This all may be well; but whata worldof business it will make! For oftcn it happens that a town or vilkigelivesat peace till ono of the legal profession sticks up bis shingle, and offers to make up a brief in any man's case. Then there is a stir, cnough, and two or threc more areneeded to settle the difFcrences which wcre occasioned by the first. ín some places. Lawyers are now as thick as black-berries in August; what an array of characteristic signs, stare a poor fellow in the face in Court street! J3ut only think of it? as soon as you enter the State of Michigan, if you chance to travel thai vay, you will hereafter see at least one of these boards of useful information, over the door of every building, froma palace to a log-cabin? and then hovv learned all the inhabitants of the West must be: or rathcr, how siniplified the laws must be to come within the knowledge of every person. Iïow we should like to attend one of their learned courts of Justice." How comes it that this wit is all expended upon Michigan, where the project to "make evory man a member of the bar" has only been proposed, whüc in New Hampshire and Maine, if we are not greatly mistaken, any man of good moral charcter is allowed to practice in the Supreme Court? Tho writer might find market for his wit nearer home. ITT The Buflalo Pilot has an accouni of n visii of Geo. V. 'Clarke, the Tempérame lecturer nd cclcbratcd singcr, (formerly of this Siaic) to 'hojail in tliat cily. The prisoners turned oui with greatalncrity, and as he lalkcd and eung to them of the effects of lovc and hatred, of intern perance aad vice, mnny wcre offected to tcars, and r (avorablo imprtesion made upon uil. Soventcen of the priionorB eigned the Ttinptrance pleJoe.

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News