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..................................................................................................................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LAW COURTS AND LAWYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: THE FINANCIAL POSITION ..................................................................................................... 254 CHAPTE...

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...choly place. This was partly owing to the despondent tone in which so many Americans then spoke of their own affairs. It was not that the Northern men... ...of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the American machine. When any matter of real interest occasioned a vote, the a... ...ve been very great, and perhaps successful. We were told that the American lawyers were against their doing so; and indeed there was such a shout of t... ...ed world be- fore many years have passed. If international law be what the lawyers say it is, international law must be altered to suit the requiremen... ... £4000. These friends were not connected with ship- ping matters, but were lawyers and hotel proprietors. The committee conclude “that the vessel was ... ... States; but as I purpose to write a chapter devoted to the law courts and lawyers of the 217 Trollope States, I need not here describe at length the...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...banished all good feeling from the hearts of our people, the States of the American Union, still in com- plete organization and equipped with all thei... ...de departure 8 Democracy in America from the original plan and purpose of American Democ- racy. “Local Self-Government,” independent of general con- ... ...hortly disappear. The sons of these opulent citizens are become merchants, lawyers, or physicians. Most of them have lapsed into obscu- rity. The last... ...s whose names present no associations to the mind: they are mostly village lawyers, men in trade, or even persons belonging to the lower classes of so... ...rominent part in future society -In what manner the pecu- liar pursuits of lawyers give an aristocratic turn to their ideas -Accidental causes which m... ...ndency – Ease with which the aristocracy coalesces with legal men – Use of lawyers to a despot – The profession of the law constitutes the only aristo...

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...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...owers left— the anti-German allies, the allied Central Europeans, the Pan- Americans. And it is to be noted that, whatever the constitu- ents of these... ...in it anything to shock fundamen- tally the princes, the diplomatists, the lawyers, the statesmen and politicians, the nationalists and suspicious peo... ...fully, with much internal bickering, with much trickery on the part of her lawyers, and much baseness on the part of her landlords; but she will do it... ... the European States after the war will grow up in the common European and American mind; public men on either side will indicate concordance with thi... ... burglars and forgers, and kept the dice loaded in favour of landlords and lawyers, the State stood aside from the great drama of human getting. For i... ...the tradition of their birth and upbringing? Next comes the great class of lawyers who, through the idiotic method of voting in use in modern democrac...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...that sort upon my part. T aking as the basis of my remarks this collective American edition, I will here attempt a rude general classification of all ... ...virtue of their aim, as a far higher class of compositions included in the American col- lection, I rank The Confessions of an Opium Eater, and also (... ...y fortnight, or so, I took care that he should re- ceive a “refresher,” as lawyers call it,—a new and revised brief,—memorializing my pretensions. The... ...g ex- traordinary there. For it is not amongst the ordinary func- tions of lawyers to take charge of Greek; far less, one might suppose, of lawyers of...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...rring themselves indifferently from town to country, from country to town; lawyers, clergymen, medi- cal men, magistrates, local judges, &c., all shif... ... so many thousand pounds, paid down according to the rate agreed on by the lawyers of the two parties; or, strictly speaking, quarrelled on between th... ...stances of the city. But, leaving the emperor’s rights as a ques- tion for lawyers, you, sir, are a soldier,—I question not, a brave one,—will you adv... ...and difficulty of conducting a perplexed examination. These assessors were lawyers of a low class, who tempered the exercise of their official duties ... ...e true dispute is, whether, after having learned that the laborer lived in American plenty, we shall have at all approximated to the appreciation of h...

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...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...rvene, but it is still chary of such intervention. And these states of the American Union were at the outset so independent-spirited that they would n... ... a common name. To this day they have no common name. We have to call them Americans, which is a ridiculous name when we consider that Canada, Mexico,... ...thouse politicians, wire-pullers, busybodies, local journalists, and small lawyers, working for various monetary interests, have “captured” the local ... ...y alike, and from the knowing cards, the pothouse shepherds, and job- bing lawyers who “work” the constituencies, comes the chief opposition to this s...

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...stances; it is, moreover, a noble vindica- tion of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery move- ment. The real object of that movement is not o... ...these remarkable men, and is still rising toward highest rank among living Americans, are abundantly laid bare in the book before us. Like the autobio... ...nly would his own history have had another termina- tion, but the drama of American slavery would have been essentially varied; for I cannot resist th... ...yond the beneficent range of both authori- ties, human and divine. * * * * American humanity hates us, scorns us, disowns and denies, in a thousand wa... ...nd denies, in a thousand ways, our very personality. The outspread wing of American christianity, apparently broad enough to give shelter to a perishi... ...d cyphering, acting as clerks, merchants, and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teach- e...

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... in any way concerned in public life to feel that the highest ambition any American can possibly have will be gratified just in proportion as he raise... ...ong men of great origi- nal genius or of an heroic type of character.” The American people should feel profoundly grateful that the greatest American ... ...ncoln: V ol One the leader, Lincoln, at least should remain a real, living American. No matter how clearly, how directly, Lincoln has shown himself in... ...the military hero born and reared in a log cabin is a famil- iar figure in American history; but we may search in vain among our celebrities for one w... ...t issue face to face in a series of public meetings, the eyes of the whole American people were turned eagerly to that one point: and the spectacle re... ...- fessional fee at that time, even in any part of America, the paradise of lawyers. I lay great stress on Lincoln’s career as a lawyer—much more than ... ...rned and cultured of his party in New Y ork editors, clergymen, statesmen, lawyers, merchants, crit- ics. They were all very curious to hear him. His ... ...nderstand, the Gen. charges that the whole has been gotten up by a knot of lawyers to injure his election; and as I am one of the knot to which he ref... ...by me ever existed; or if there did, it was forged between Talbott and the lawyers, and slipped into his papers for the purpose of injuring him. Now, ...

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...continent, in what relates to immigration and territorial origin. When the American enters on the history of his ancestors, he is driven, after some t... ...ography of a Pocket-Handkerchief with us, our most remote extraction being American, while our more recent construction and education have taken place... ...d anecdote. Under these limitations, I have ever consid- ered my family as American by origin, European by emigra- tion, and restored to its paternal ... ...but I am inclined to think that much of it is, and, as I am now writing to Americans, and of French people, I see no particular rea- son why the fact ... ...impatience, for, to tell you the truth, I have the greatest bijou for your American la- dies that ever came out of a bleaching ground—un mouchoir de p... ...eping a poor shirt up sometimes until midnight, lis- tening to cursed dull lawyers, and prosy, caviling witnesses.” “I beg you to recollect, sir, that... ...lieve what one reads, it applies to hackney-coaches, ferry-boats, doctors, lawyers, and even the clergy. My father says it is—” “What? I am curious to... ... written by one of those inspired moralists, and profound con- stitutional lawyers, and ingenious political economists, who daily teach their fellow c...

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...ed no steps; the peasant life was the same, there were already priests and lawyers and town craftsmen and territo- rial lords and rulers doctors, wise... ... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ...and the trusted servant, it was in the hands of the predomi- nant caste of lawyers, who had an enormous advantage in be- ing the only trained caste. T... ...the world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems th... ... to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, an... ...dy; the children in the streets knew them. And yet the world still, as the Americans used to phrase it, ‘fooled around’ with the paraphernalia and pre... ... touch with that gigantic childishness which was the characteristic of the American imagination. For the Americans also were among the simple peoples ... ...shall govern all right, Firmin. Government only becomes difficult when the lawyers get hold of it, and since 96 The World Set Free these troubles beg... ... get hold of it, and since 96 The World Set Free these troubles began the lawyers are shy. Indeed, come to think of it, I wonder where all the lawyer...

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...t the most difficult part of it. But my beastly own- ers and their beastly lawyers won’t relinquish a scrap of what they call their freedom of action.... ... that rising in- tonation of humorous conclusion which is so distinctively American, “those Druids have got him.” “He’s hiding,” said the automobilist... ...he cheek bones, that faint flavour of the Amerindian, one sees at times in American women. Her voice was a very soft and pleasing voice, and she spoke... ... pleasing voice, and she spoke persuasively and not assertively as so many American women do. Her de- termination to make the dry bones of Stonehenge ... ... Stone Age. The shorter, less attractive lady, whose accent was distinctly American, came now and stood at the doctor’s elbow. She seemed moved to pla... ... here right now instead of being shopping in Paris or London like de- cent American women.” The younger lady looked down on her companion with somethi... ...up against the machinations of adventurers by means of trustees, partners, lawyers, advisers, agreements and suchlike complications, or for acquiring ...

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...e Judge thinks thus; and it so happens that there is a vast portion of the American people that do not look upon that matter as being this very little... ...a thing. Why, decisions apparently contrary to that decision, or that good lawyers thought were contrary to that decision, have been made by that very... ... the profession as law, and it has always needed confirmation be- fore the lawyers regarded it as settled law. But Judge Douglas will have it that all... ...anation of the people or not, Judge Douglas, with the Republicans and some Americans, had greatly the argument against the Admin- istration; and while... ... Judge Douglas’s friends furnished twenty , to add to which there were six Americans and ninety-four Republicans. I do not say that I am precisely acc... ...ne other point. Judge Douglas has a very affec- tionate leaning toward the Americans and Old Whigs. Last evening, in a sort of weeping tone, he descri... ... his construction of the Declaration last year, he said it only meant that Americans in America were equal to Englishmen in England. Then, when I poin... ...g twice that he had carefully read the speech, and, in the language of the lawyers, as he had twice read the speech, and still had put in no plea or a...

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...will not call them), who are now at large and working more piracies in his American ocean, which the Pope gave him. (He and the Pope should guard it, ... ...shore. None’ll hinder you. They’re all gone mad on these coasts—French and American together. ’Tisn’t my notion o’ war.” Pierre was an old King Louis ... ...s are a seemly, quiet people, and they’d had trouble enough from white men—American and English—during the wars, to keep ‘em in that walk. They lived ... ...ir own opinions (I’ve heard ‘em) about the French and the English, and the Americans. They’d suffered from all of ‘em during the wars, and they only w... ...the same, only t’other way round, and besides searching, they was pressing American citizens into their Navy to help them fight France, on pretence th... ...stare at the river, you young fool! —and all in front of these pig-jobbing lawyers and citizens he makes himself Consul, which is as good as a King. H...

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...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...good deal like everybody in general. By and by a hearty and healthy German American got in and opened up a frank and interesting and sympathetic conve... ...erhaps we shall get along better, and I shall stop calling Waggner, on the American What Is Man and Other Essays 140 plan, and thereafter call him Wa... ...ar and accurate acquaintance with the manners and customs and shop talk of lawyers through being for a time the cleark of a stratford court ; just as... ...f er ror.” Such was the testimony borne by one of the most distinguished lawyers of the nineteenth century who was raised to the high office of Lord... ...became Lord Chancellor. Its weight will, doubtless, be more appreciated by lawyers than by laymen, for only lawyers know how impossible it is for thos... ...rd Penzance, to which dignity he was raised in 1869. Lord Penzance, as all lawyers know, and as the late Mr. Inderwick, K.C., has testified, was one o...

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...with clean, upright, unornamented lines. It was filled with the offices of lawyers, doctors, agents for ma- chinery, for emery wheels, for wire fencin... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...or. He was a ner- vous speculator. Before he gambled he consulted bankers, lawyers, architects, contracting builders, and all of their clerks and sten... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...vertisements of those home-study courses which the energy and foresight of American commerce have con- tributed to the science of education. The first... ...e these correspondence-courses might prove to be one of the most important American inventions. “Trouble with a lot of folks is: they’re so blame mate... ... dinges don’t want to be porters or cotton-pickers. Oh, no! They got to be lawyers and professors and Lord knows what all! I tell you, it’s becoming a... ... through with it, Babbitt had Ted a United States Senator. Among the great lawyers whom he mentioned was Secena Doane. “But, gee whiz,” Ted marveled, ...

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...ob of it, and save it. Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. I do hope, on closer inspection, you will find ... ...poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going ... ... other agencies to work which shall compensate for the loss of a good many Americans. Don’t fail to check the stampede at once. Trumbull, I think, wil... ...,” etc. Was not this the origin of popular sover- eignty as applied to the American people? Here we are told that governments are instituted among men... ...vided the Methodist and Presbyterian churches, and has sown discord in the American Tract Soci- ety. The churches have split and the society will foll... ...ngs they have already decided, except that there is a little quibble among lawyers between the words “dicta” and “decision.” They have 56 The Writing... ...that court. Now, as to this indirect mode by “unfriendly legislation,” all lawyers here will readily understand that such a proposition cannot be tole... ...h virtually excluded it,— and that upon a very well known principle to all lawyers, that what a Legislature cannot directly do, it cannot do by indire... ...ere disposed to do so, and we could take up some one of the issues, as the lawyers call them, and I were called upon to make an argument about it to t...

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...ock. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cr... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ...reat original — the Tyre of this Carthage; — the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket did those aborig... .... There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, the same as in South American ponchos. But could it be possible that any sober har pooneer woul... ...elagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men of war now peacefully ride in once savage harbor... ...aling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own leg islators and lawyers in this matter. They have provided a system which for terse compreh... ...ould the King have the head, and the Queen the tail? A reason for that, ye lawyers! In his treatise on “Queen Gold,” or Queen pinmoney, an old King’s ... ...re I could perish — How’s that? — There’s a riddle now might baffle all the lawyers backed by the ghosts of the whole line of judges: — like a hawk’s b...

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...omposure, chanced on Mr. Carling, the solicitor, where Lincoln’s Inn pumps lawyers into Fleet Street through the drain-pipe of Chancery Lane. He was i... ...aracters …’ ‘Of course,’of course there are; and I could name you some. We lawyers …! ‘You encounter all sorts.’ ‘Between ourselves,’ Carling sank his... ...against propriety. You should read my friend Durance’s Es- say on Society. Lawyers are a buttress of Society. But, come: I wager they don’t know what ... ...rounds for thinking himself of the community of the man of the world. ‘You lawyers dress in another closet,’ he said. ‘The Rev. Groseman has the ear o... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s... ...but stupefying mission. A fluent lin- guist, yet an Englishman, the slight American accent con- tracted during a lengthened residence in the United St... ...xon’s champion. On a day patented for secresy, and swear- ing-in the whole American Continent through the cables to keep the secret by declaring the p...

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...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ...lagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or V ancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once sav- age harbo... ...thousand men before the mast employed in the Ameri- can whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the... ...haling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers in this matter. They have provided a system which for terse compreh... ...ould the King have the head, and the Queen the tail? A reason for that, ye lawyers! In his treatise on “Queen-Gold,” or Queen-pinmoney, an old King’s ... ...n ere I could perish—How’s that?—There’s a riddle now might baffle all the lawyers backed by the ghosts of the whole line of judges:—like a hawk’s bea...

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...denationalized that those one took for Russians generally turned out to be American, and those one was inclined to ascribe to New York proved to have ... ...appreciation of its value. Even she and Lansing, in spite of their unmixed Americanism, their substantial background of old-fashioned cousinships in N... ...s touts at an International Exhibition. If they were usually recognized as Americans it was only be- cause they spoke French so well, and because Nick... ... blowing it in on the ladies.” Strefford, Lansing had noticed, always used American slang when he was slightly at a loss, and wished to divert attenti... ...ou about having pounced on his ‘Spring Snow Storm’ in a dark corner of the American Artists’ exhibition—skied, if you please! They skied him less than... ...rite to him?” She recoiled slightly. It had never occurred to her that the lawyers would not “manage it” without her intervention. “Write to him … but... ...in “Lansing versus Lansing!” She burst out laughing at the idea. What were lawyers made of, she wondered? Didn’t the man guess, by the mere look in he... ... … carry out your wishes … arriving in Paris … fix an appointment with his lawyers ….” Nick—it was Nick the words were talking of! It was the fact of ... ...ce that she tried to make indifferent: “The ‘proceedings,’ or whatever the lawyers call them, have begun. While they’re going on I like to stay quite ...