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NORTHERN STANDARD.
CHAS. DE MORSE
LONG SHALL OUR BANNER BRAVE THE BREEZE THE STANDARD OF THE FREE.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
VOL. 3.
CLARKSVILLE TEXAS DEC. 10 1845.
N0.38.
THE
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moving and leaving it uncalled for is prima fade
evidence ot intentional trace! :
Jnde Thompson of Indiana decided recently.
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In nnlifr he e. ilnr to discontinue the oaDer. at the
eadof the lime for which he subscribed or pay up
ft.. mrrrm ln IP4C TlAflnit CtT Bflfll hT VOk T '
UK. WIUIIHgl) .... "WO wwwuu aw. . ... jv....
'"Ayearortwosiocethe Circuit Court ol Penn-
ilr.mil decided
That where a Post Master failed to notify the
pablishers of newspaper-'hat their papers were not
lined or taicen out o. me uuice ne reuuercu mm-
aelt liable for the subscription.
S3 A letter from Col. Todd our Minis-
ter at the Court of Russia addressed to the
Secretary of the National Institute describes
. a remarkable case of an undecayed body
which had come under the writer's notice:
) 22d June 7
St. Petkksbdkoh ) 4th July J 1S45.
Mv Dear Sir: There is a singular case of
an undecayed body at Reval an ancient Ger
man town on the present Russian shore of
the Baltic I visited the church in which it
it preserved and where it is exhibited to
atrangers. It is the body of an old gentle-
man in a military dress worn in the year
1710. The body is perfectly dry; some of
the teeth and white hairs are in a perfect
ttale. The skin is of a brown color and was
represented when first exposed to the air to
be very elastic If you strike the chest or
belly it gives a hollow sound. Tho stock-
ings are nearly decayed but the boots are
I entire and the hairs of the wig are in a good
condition.
Some thirty years ago. when the church
was repaired the coffin was found in a sep-
arate room under a great quantity of furni-
ture and old rubbish". When the coffin was
opened the skin was of a lighter color than
it is now; -"By a paper found in the coffin.
and by the church records it was ascertained
to be the body of atieneral Duke de Croy
who was a Frenchman and entered the Russian-service
in the time of Peter the Great
aboatthe year 1696 and was employed in
the war with Sweden- AClhe battle of Narva
in which thcTtywi0ere defeated h6 shut
himself opln thfertress of-Narva and cap-
finlkel. After Krretnrn from Sweden he
tided a aiprlfSeperion in Rem! and ia
.'SuaZ ni:.jMlt ': ik. J2
xuned hew? - At Jus death in lne J&
k MiaoflMllWry.hwrt4idid
net allow b'ufrMife'to sjaiytae'b.uBlif
hS'heirsehould g-f &$!&'.
in ue eSraKSssnrn-wor-';
j iJr.''.iv 11 iiianitl friT
tho Mil (whkh mjkgtmi
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ttbepftn-
iBit'is'faid
wo. tbaMWWaaiaeKice
ti'aave.Tu..UkeiU
Adettb'.arTd
IMF aMMert urowt
eoa
salt .v
aaj4iW?iMH
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I Francis Markoe Jr.. Xm..
' 'Corresponding Sec'ry of .Nat. Institute
n r - -' Washington City.
Selling Circassian Women. We find
the following account of the traffic in Circas-
sian women in a late foreign periodical.
I may surprise Europeans that a people
so fond of liberty as the Circassians should
make a traffic of their daughters by srlling
them to strangers. It is howevei consider-
ed an honorable manner of providing for
them; the maidens themselves do not object to
it; and be it observed that the chiefs seldom
sell their children to a stranger their daugh-
ters being too much sought after by their
countrymen. Before the Russian war du-
ring the feuds that prevailed among the in-
habitants it frequently happened that the
members of one tribe would steal the daugh
ters of another and sell them; since however
they have made one common cause against
the Russians such acts have entirely ceased.
There is now also much difficulty in smug-
gling the maidens to Constantinople in con-
sequence of the very severe blockade kept
by the Russians on that coast; and from the
present limited commerce with Persia and
Turkey the price ofa Circassian woman in
Circassia has verv much decreased. For
merly for a maiden would be demanded
froma hundred to a hundred and fifty cons
nnd oxen or their equivalent; now a very
handsome girl may be bought for fifteen and
a perfectly beautiful one for thirty a circum
stance much rejoiced at by the poorer Circas-
sians for beauty of form and figure are more
prized than menial accomplishments.
The ceremony of marriage is very similar
to what it is in Persia with the exception
that as the Circassian maiden constantly
wea's from her childhood a tight corset the
bridegroom as soon as he is alone with his
newly-married bride rips it open with his
dagger a proceeding attended sometimes by
serious consequences both from the danger
the girl runs of being wounded by the weapon
and also from the too great suddenness with
which she is deprived of the tight band.ige
which has encircled her for so long a period
As in Persia a wife is purchased by her hus-
band of her parents; the price is usually paid
in cattle though sometimes in what it at the
moment most necessary to the family. There
is also a sum settled to be paid as a dowry to
the -Aifein case she be divorced without just
cause.
Slaves and Cattle in Brazoria and
Matagorda counties. It appears from
the returns of the Assessors of Brazoria and
Matagordacounties as published in the
Planter and Despatch that the number of
slaves in Brazoria county over tea years of
age. is 1390; under ten years 675. The
number of hornrd cattle is 24.000. The
number ofs'aves in Matagorda county over
ten years of age is 719 underten years; 361.
The number of horned cattle is 16000.
The Halt Ocnce vLetter. A writer
in the Doylestown Olive Branch has been
at great pains to ascertain how much can be
transmitted for five cents. An avsirdupois
half ounce is 218-3-4 grains. Wafers one
grain. Sealing wax usual quantity five
grain. A sheet of foolscap weighs 172 grains.
Letter paper 135 Small envelopes 45grains
large 52. You can send a letter 300 miles
for 5 cents containing viz the sheet of let-
ter paper enclosing seven bank notes in an
envelope. Haifa sheet of letter paper with
a half eagle enclosed under wax. A sheet
ilh a dime and a half enclosed secured by
wafers. One sheet of letter pap?r with a
quarter eagle enclosed secured by wax. A
sheet of foolscap in an envelope sealed with
a wafer. One and a halfsheets of letter paper
sealed with a wax or wafer.
We havo mentioned that Gen. Semple of
111. had constructed a steam car to run on
ordinary roads. The Springfield Journal
of last Thursday says :
"Gen. Semple made an experiment with
his arairier on Saturday. last Many of
nnr zeni-reiiarfen lfr.WICB.ace ana were
Kkertwp prevwaatojriewwiei"
ran Mme'mile r nMmtoXtnr
thewachiaery. .Thow prer-were firm in
tlifrbelief Ait -whM thw prntrMatlinAMt ia
rl na it tri Ilbrorkaarell AssMQw
fsW-ik ma often nf Iwelfe !' hoWrV
J&We.lMrP lhl t is theiAeiJef; 'Grt '1
flLBDlO lOUCIlV4tiro uiavuiovij. ftu
r;'-ooi lb prairr. V
i yVr" i "r V-'-
JkRtZ
ArrVrfcr.Vtisiriii-
sadly disappointed that1 an lmportaat pert 'I
the.rrmedrij(eBllhe ac-ciJenfhaphc4iiwelBj1artfmJtnR
a circgirah-reuir 'efleini.-
i-i ha m nffnara-vaTacfH4MeircaH. a
ai"ff Aeyiauog Si"K.et
sfeSffSiS
0
Ri
.iaa-e;M
thrmiHiaa?iil
and the ."esfc'tolhe;
the'Emrlisraboliti
ihropic goBSon Rui
mi"mrmvmm?mm
E. .- ' if. i: iiPf j T
EftflVBsHBPtaliHIBVsv"
Mr. Arkwright (whose father shaved
men for a penny a piece). had an income ol
450000 a year and left afoitune of 10-
000000 1
A Scr-ERB Cartet. There has lately
been put down at the French palace of Ver-
sailles the most superb carpet perhaps ever
manufactured. It was made at the royal es-
tablishment of the Gobelin nnd was begun in
1783. Consequently it has been sixty-two
years in tho loom. The whole border is
worked with rich garlands of flowers and the
four corners each with a large bunch of ro-
ses copied from celebrated paintings end
embracing all the roses known in France.
The work done at this manufactory is so
exquisite that paintings have been copied in
such a manner that the artist himself could
scarcely at the distance ofa few feet detect
the imitation. A whole lifetime is spent in
one of these works The manufactory i
o.nedbv Louis Philippe.
The English We take the following
eloquent and spirited extract from the Balli.
more Literary and Rtliglous Magazine
for June. We belies o it is from the nen of
the Rev. R Breckenridi;e:
in speaking ot the tngl.sli we sliouM
alwajs luvr two perfectly dis'inctidros in our
.. ...
iniiiu. vm; uie iiauou una inu ou'Mrcny
j
The English nation is one orihc noblest in
the world. It has appeared but a few times
on the theatre of affairs; at Runnimede un
der the commonwealth at the revolution of
16S0 at the coercion of Parliamentary re-
form in 1S31. The English oligarchy is
among the most ambitious uupitying grasp
ing audacious unscrupulous and false that
ever existed among men.
It has bullied robbed and butchered man-
kindduringthegreater part of seven hundred
years; and at the present moment still reek-
ing with the blood of Southern Africa it is
grinding India to dust plotting the conquest
of China in an unjust quarrel oppressing
its subjects in Europe and pushing its un-
quenchable avarice and ambition into every
corner where man can be terrified corrupted-
or subdued. America alone has defied beat-
en and foiled this oligarchy; so that Amer
ica enjoys the proud distiction of its quench
less hate and sleepless fear."
Another AVic Stale The West Tennes
see Whig proposes that a new Stale be e
reeled composed of West Tennessee the nor
thern portion of Mississippi and that portion
of Kentucky lying west of the Tennessee
river. The district between tho Tennrsscc
and Mississippi rivers would make a State
larger than six of the old Statesand numbers
now 21 respectable counties without the ad-
dition of any portion of North Mississippi.
It comprises 13 rivers not including the
Tennessee Ohio nnd Mississippi rivers
which that paper says naturesecms to have
formed for the boundary line of the State.
Gambling Develofkents. Large De'
falcalion Within a few weeks past s-ys
the New York Morning News of the Sih
inst. it has been discovered by the house of
HoIfordBranckner and Co private bankers
la Wall street that the large amount of thir-ly-lhtce
thousand eight hundred an-l odd
dollan of the funds in their hands had been
embezzled by their book keeper and confi.
dential clerk by meins ol a regular system
of fraudulent and false entries and alterations
of the books carried on for several years
The young man whose name is suppressed
on account of his afflicted family and fond
and devoted young wife and several small
children has not been tho gainer by his ne
farious transactions for he does not possess
now one single penny of the whole sum
The fatal passion for gaming first induced
him to betray the trust of his employers. He
lost and his after larcenies were committed
with the hope of being able by a fortunate
stroke at playto retrieve his losses and refund
the money. As is too often the case instead
of g'ettinjfout'of the mire he continued to go
deepe fand 'deeper into it until at last his
crime waYHrscovercd. He has not ysl been
arrested but trie police -know where to lay
rirbLi. I- Ut C.2 -i.-:- j'
meir naaux.urHi uiiu buiucki ucu imcu.
vo4i.The':EiUsburg Ga
voit MCBihnt-asubficriber'iB Westmoreland
co. Pa called. aTettdays ago and-jpnd-tfef
mi: iTst dld'he mbsl'be .'and lhaihe "iaias
deeda' jtMHtmafe-.hU acta ptqve) ha( taken
iU2r rrBfmlarltt'fa AQ'HtT nnd haa
wen nothing remarkable in this.
. 'JlrX'.-fer.ilTha lo'diSnt 'dMed the: falls
&-Ai!Knj. io nhe Mississippiumer
IaW' How
JljJ);fak-carperped:Hlar
hJJM. a.qostjbeaoOfoJ
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B ! II lilkl. UBnni .tW.BUIbV ftSUL- it
A D DRE3S
Delivered by A. W. Arrinston. Esq.
before the Jurist's Association of the Sev-
enth Judicial District at Clarksville on
the 4th day of October 1815.
My Theme for the hour is tho legal char-
acter. its origin In the Social Economy its
effects on political civilization and its forma-
tive influence moral and mental on the indi
vidual character.
1 may remark as preliminary apologetic-
ally that in piling together a few too imme
ihodical views on the subject designated I
have been compelled and shall be compelled
to rely exclusively on my own resources; for
as fir as my information extendi the whole
thesis is terra. Incognita an island in the
great ocean of human thought as yet never
touched by the wandering vessel of philan
thropic.-! I investigation. A few casual and
disconnected glances may have been cast at
it not inductively for the purpose of real du-
dovery but to supply fictions for that fierce
raillery which the SnccTeign People (to use
a phrase consecrated by the mighty muster
roll of the demagogues) have at all times
poured forth against the legal profession. Or
those glances may have been ancillary tot
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har a 10Zjii sentence? of justification in the
c0j form 0f an apology by friends of the
1 riiuperaica isar- Anu invst iragmcms oi
......... i tt . . i -i r r
biokcn lines scattered over the widely-sepa-rattd
leaves of almost obsolete volumes form
the diminutive vitality of all that has been
written or perhaps spoke'n in relation to the
question What is the groat cause and ef-
ect philosophically of the ins'itution ofa
social nnd political class that in all civilized
hnds through all time have exerted an in-
fluence more powerful than any other one
felt in the Economy of Nations !
With no other light then than the unbor.
rowed brilliancy of the subject we undertake
the discussion carrying along with us the
consolation thai any failure will be the less
bitter as success on a theme so utterly un-
tried is the more improbable.
I must however make one more remark
preliminary to remove the fallacious appear-
anceof obtrusiveness. which the mere choice
of the subject suggests to the popular mind
Some :nay think that to treat of the Lgal
character in the presence of lawyers im-
plies some supposition of legal excellence on
the part of the lecturer which must require
a different proof from that which evidences
his lanity in the bold tentative which he
assumes. In other words many will draw
the hasty and illogical conclusion that none
but an eminent Iiwyer himself is competent
to discuss the legal character. This is a very
common fallacy although not classified in
any book of logic and one which unfortu
nately may be gathered from the pages of
authors who were themselves logriaus.
Thus Pope says.
" Let those teach other:. who thenv-elres excel
And censure freely who have written well."
A most sophistical deduction ; for one may
have the sagacity to judge w ithout the imag.
'nation to create. And perhaps in the w hole
range of literature no one ever existed who
could have so well drawn the lights and sha-
des ofthe legal character as one who was no
lawyer that 'prodigy of erudition obsolete
as well as extant D'Israeli the elder.
I The origin of the Legr.l character in
the Social Economy of Nations is to be
sought for where alone it is to be found.
deeply radicated in the mixed soil of political
liberty and improved civilization.
In the Patriarchal state which notwith-
standing all the gorgeous embellishments of
the polls was nothing more nor less than
the incipiencv of pure Despotism and under
every form of Despotism Lgal Advocacy is
wholly unknown. As the venerable grand
Paler Familiat sat under the umbrageous
oak of unknown centuries whose thick green
branches were sufficient to canopy all his
little tribe and dealt out his oracular decis-
ions to the Tude litigants of the forest the
fishers and hunters of.thc young world;
those decisions which fancy' ahat bcnds?its
soft; iris of brighter lines than decorate. the
solar. jpecfruH over -all things where 'it
throws -its magiCjlight has consecrated with
alLthe fabled and sanctified glories tof the
GqldeB.Age-Tno professor of law initialed
nto'allva mysteries was permitted to watch
the scales of Jutice.to note down til tho trem
blings of their inchoative eqaipoisendikeep
an.eyasteadily.hxed on the movements of the
batMa.tbIie)d'lheea. The troth is; ia all
rode efa.rbefora cltilixation hasuied around
natioias t"HTgo)den bands of political.organir-
rnurs there1
u 'no Use tor Jawvers. The
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MIHB ICIUGilB. BIBT
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f li- :(? rr9liru'2rA;Maii u
v-r. -.---;'' ---r-Tr-s . :
forma and bhasea ot deinur7r Tl
ihTeaWesKeciii'
Mtnc-oaPTcaie'siKi su
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Hsverma
iaUoa.ltliere was no law ether than the capn.-
mooi will of the Mtiiarcbal laoee. and of
. i.jk.. -l rt r
fw. -it-tj vi - "vjSrr-'jtScvavV'V ft-r-t---!&zji
i wnn wb
Y wMv.i7?rm; wnra wjuuuaewiaWisVz.
""fit Ti iiirr ffriiiassiTiTrTiff iTfr ' 'tem'viTunmsmJiaxmem
'TxfitairV-.vj! -KBSnaKaRsii-iiat. ari
ly carry into effect the avaricious or bloody
edicts of an absolute chief who sits above all
law and who feels no check but tho fear of
revolution. In all such lands the word jus
tice is permitted to slumber silently in the
dictionary or if breathed by the human voice
in open day it is not heard breaking in thun
ders from the cloqrcnt lips of the impassion
ed orator. Etthe Barmaking the startled des-
pot of some wide circle tremble before the
annihilating denunciation which he launches
upon him and making the hearts of the poor
oppressed to leap for joy. No if that sa-
cred word which expresses at once the holi
est attnbuto of ih6 Omnipotent Dcilyand the
brightest quality which can create even on
the Bench of the Halls of judicature ''a de
scended God "in the person ofa human judge
is ever heard at allin those benighted nations
whose territorial lines are virtual prison walls
nnd where no distinction of class is known.
save the blasphemous one of tyrant and
slave there it is only heard from the mouth
of the accursed tax-gither as he rakes with
merciless fingers from the hard hands of the
peasantry their little accumulations of hbo
riousand almost blood-tinned sweat.
II makes one's heart sick to think of these
things. It almost makes one feel a loathing
'for hisspcaies.whocan do and bear stirh actsl
n... . i : .- .!. i .
u. wuujuuuuu tomes io us in inc granu lact
inscribed in flowing capitals in a thousand
histories and all over the whole volume of
the philosophy ofthe human heart.thatdeep
est of jtll philosophy that science and civi-
lization must call from the highest Heaven
their twin stars ol soft and tender and beauti-
ful light.cre celestial justice can be enthroned
in her proper temple of the Forum or her
ministering advocates can be permitted to
stand fanning her pure and purifying firesat
the unstained altar 1
But to speak without a figureit cannot ad-
mit ofa doubt that the institution of the ad
vocate is a great :ep in political civilization
and must bo regarded wherever found as a
proof ofthe advancement ofa people in civil
liberty. Let us I jok closely at the fact and
see what it proclaims. It proclaims in lan-
guage perfectly intelligible that there is a
rule of decision independent of the mere will
of the judge and by which he isequrlly
bound as the meanest peasant xvho may en-
ter the precincts of the court to claim his
right a rule that never fluctuates. that
knows no distinctions of rank a rule.which
the advocate must seeis impartially adminis-
tered. It proclaims that the parties who
come inlo the hallsof justice are thereon its
sacred floor perfectly equal in the eye ofthe
law and shall be made equal in fad by hav-
ing one learned in all its secrets to plead for
that equality. And this in itself is a great
progress in political freedom woriha thou-
sand unsubstantial concessions of the sover-
eign bonus Imperalor who can revoke at
pleasure favors which stand in his absolute
will alone.
In accordance with this view we find in
all nations wherever the morning star of lib
erty is seen peerituhabovc the horizon of
barbarism and itsHng beams are felt to
fall with genial innuHce in the courts of jus-
tice scattering afar the chilling gloom of Ju-
dicial Absolutism ; there stands the Adeocalc
beside his client pouring all the light of h:s
learning around his caus fortifying it with
his argument nnd repelling away all its as-
saults wnb the weapon of eloquent words
And wc find ever where also the converse
of this view as before stated ihit despotism
and the institution of the Advocate have never
stood and we may add can never stand to-
gether. Look away yonder at those delightful
climes which first greet the -rising un :
there Persia's purpledespot holds his. sceptre
unrestrained over the fairest portion of the
green earlh.bedightwith crystal streams.val-
leys enameled with flowers and groves redo
lent with odors: a Paradise of Nature: a
Hell of serfs. And.all oTer that broad can-
vass of EarAjgsintcdivitbaicturespf Heav
en irom JMediaji . diamond mountains to
Cashmere's vale of roses jwhere-butterflies
banquet the whole yeac round n lawyer's
voice wa never heard in all. their Pande-
moniarrcouns wnere Justice tue it is a ter
rible misnomer! .Go there .ye whose sneers
at the bar are but the ivain radiations of.a
wit. whose chief merit is its ignorance and
lesra.the practical workings .6f you r judicial
tbeorismg. JAndJif yon r'aastilUclinc to the
yungrimii&j&fm
win never lacir lor .exampies.wnna Waliora-
et s naie creaentawetebes her wanme horns
over300jjHrnf eTlMtj agaiBK tyranny.
Itffietela
i Msat law r lawver. with
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FJjftfitm iaAudications
wiinBatiMiicei:..rxa-WMi
'i n..-. ijT-; "- ifti.a - - i t s-k. --.i
sxver lack Tor
i Taje!-r. 7:-HtvrTrtr-"-Atir! t.vi
an win m cxawpN.wsi.iiHMIIMfBUI.ICertTSr-
iBswsnusiTTStsHB -i isBuu avsuissa mmmww nssssLSf-.aeirnfMftcsswfi
cloths of the Cumanche whiten the prairie-
seas of the WestjWhose shores are the Rocky
Mountains 1
But let us turn our eyes for the moment on
a manifestation of human nature under entire-
ly a different aspcctjWhcre justice is not mere-
ly a name but a benign and glorious reality
and combining at once the stern features of
the Grecian Minerva with the soft enchant-
ments and serene beauties of the Paphian
Venus is supported on the one hand by Angel-faced
Freedom and on the other by Sci-
ence holding up to Heaven her golden chan-
delier flaming with suns and stars. Let us
turn to that land where every thing touched
by the hand of her matchless genius was in-
deed divine. You all must know at oner-. I
speak of ancient Greece. That lovely region
where civilization earliest bloomed her fair-
est flowers and shot np at once to maturity.
There where Celestial Liberty first made her
home in a Republican Temple among stat-
ues of Parian marble beautiful like life a-
round which clustered pictures which no
after ait of man could ever rival or scarcely
imitate. There where music breathed in
every air and their very language mi"htal-
! m' be said to surpass the music of later a-
g There where poetry was first born the
tager offspring of that starry clime and tho
first lovo of youthful Genius. There.-.vhere
the "old blind man of Sei3" poured out in
living streams the overflowing fulness ofthe
wedrous ideal that bubbled up in ocean
waves from the depths of his fathomless soul!
There where History's Morning Star first
arose with radiant disclike a rising sunover
the troubled Eea of perishable and perishing
Tradition. There where ten thousand free
Athenians with Freedom's glorious banner
flying thundered in the rear or halfa million
routed Persian slaves and struck the first
blow against tyranny: a blow whose echo
has resounded throughout the world There
in that land of old and hallowed reminiscen-
ces which the genuine lover of Nature and
Art and Liberty can scarcely name without
tears there the Allmighty-mcn Advo-
cates Demosthenes and iEschines. and the
honey lipped Pericles ruled the fierce De-
mocracy of Athens not more by the elo-
quence whieh ornamented their legislative
assemblies than by the thunder peals which
every day broke and flashed around ihe Fo-
rum to defend the dearest rights of the citi-
zen. If all these facts be true can wc hesitate a
moment either when we trace the argumeat
a prioriflT when we pause on the deductions
so evident from comparative history to refer
the institution of the Advocate to its proper
origin in the social economy. the incipient
recognition of the great truth ins:ribed on the
very title page ofthe bible of politics as on"
that of Nature and Revelation that all men.
in respect to their primary rightspre equal
and should be made equal in their remedies.
II. We now approach the second branch
of our inquiry: What has been and is the
effect ofthe Legal character on political civ-
ilization 1
We may adopt here as our starling points
the cardinal axiom of Lord Bacon's philoso-
phy with a restriction as well as an exten-
sion however that he did not make: that
the human mind whether contemplated in-
dividually orm masses in respect to its actu-
al knowledge and acquisitions is a Tabula
Rasa a blank surface on which the pen of
Education must trace all the flowing lines
thut form the character of single persons and
of nations. '1 his being conceded it is obvious
that every inalilutien ofa general nature must
exercise its proper influence to form that
complex structure of modes of thoughteeling
and action which together constitute the pe-
culiar habitudes ofrattonal character. Thus
institutions of amusement of Religion ol civ-
il polity and in fine every institution that
can-influence the mind or heart powerfully
impress themselves stamp themselves as it
were into the great soul of nations to be re-
produced inuhe pajes of the philosophical
.historians centuries arter the ice crowned
wares of Oblivion have swept over the proud
estolumns of chiseled marble that once
chronicled the triumphs ofa vanished nation's
arret 'and the riches of its faded commerce.
I Thus what an almost incredible influence
the-actinjeof the splendid dramas and ihe
reading ofthe fine poems at the theatre of
AtbenSjhad iu the civilization of that polished
people; we learn in the recorded factthat ev-
ery Athenian was a critic in his Iangaageand
every even the most illiterate market woman
ofthe streets could detect the difference be-
tween a native and a foreigner by the slight-
est difference in their pronunciation.
Let us" then see what has been the'speciSc
civilizing influence of the Legal character
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