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Show GEO. L. WOOD?. Attorney ud Goveraor-t-Lw, Iiccntlva and Solicitor In Chancery. It is not often that we tender to professional gentlemen the benefit of a gratuitous advertisement, bat we feel it to be a duty we owe to those unfortunates unfor-tunates whose feet may be tangled in the meshes of the law, to invite their 1 attention to the advantages to be gained gain-ed by retaining the services of the distinguished dis-tinguished person whose name and functions form the caption of this article. ar-ticle. His excellency has embarked in the practice of law in this city, and his voice soloDg sonorous against polygamic theocracy the-ocracy and unauthorized nplphratinnt; of the fourth of July, may now be obtained ob-tained to disgorge itself in the courts of his "kentry" in behalf of clients ready to re-pond with cash or approved credit. The advantages of the governor's services ser-vices in a criminal case cannot te overestimated. The unlucky defendant defend-ant who may be condemned by an obtuse ob-tuse court and an unsympathetic jury, can smile at the course of justice, serene in the consciousness that whenever when-ever all other means fail his lawyer can triumph over court and jury by the simple but effective process of granting grant-ing a pardon. In civil cases also the great gain of hiring a governor may not be overlooked. The weight of his official name will quite offset the employment em-ployment of the court's relations on the other side, for against the pleading voice of kindred will stand the bulwark of executive power. If the defendant shall hire a. brother-in-law, for instance, in order to induce a judge to purchase domestic peace by leaning to one side of the case, the plaintiff may baffle the wicked plan by feeing a governor who possescs tho prerogative of "redistrict-: ing" the judge who may venture to decide de-cide against him. The ties of kindred may pull ever so hard in one direction, the fear of banishment to a remote district will act as a counter check to keep the scales of justice poised, and the caudle tones crying for family bread and butter, will be hushed in the presence pre-sence of the imposing figure which points persuasive with one Soger to his olient, and with tho other menacingly to the distant and unfruitful fields of Beaver. We trust that no over-anxious litigant liti-gant will overdo the thing, and seek to make assurance doubly sure by retaining retain-ing both the brother-in-law and the governor; this will look badly to the world, and not help the cause. The governor alone will do quite as well, and be more economical. |
