Show I 1 IW our oar eye falling accidentally Y upon the copy 0 of will TV U inserted in this papers paper we thought it too ex each lent a specimen of what a correct legal form should I 1 to io let it slumber on all the shelves of OUT ont library and a as afforded us much pleasure eden even atthe at the third and fo four reading we hope dur aur readers will give it t at least leas second reading ans ana also I 1 because we design makin making a alet at for a fe few w comments s oi on the rave subject w I 1 1 I 1 j so far as OUT observation has reached if a perso pere moved urdu by the of reform has ventured IS biggest est chace that lenting or Id lawyers t to 0 me make draft laws was hk wolves I 1 to guard sheep what is is still more presumptuous has hinted that 1 ls laws of the united states and of the different st stafi and nd of angland land arid and es especially the english com comai lw were not the perfection of human ivi hs he is accused I 1 of possessing ignorance so gross as to tobx unworthy of f enlightenment emment I 1 pr or so profound i found ais as 10 ti be bei be below I ak pity T isow ow r i abey W hyso so T fast rite most alf 4 wise limb of af mb 60 i jaw or rather jr ather nearly I 1 work 1 oy nothing are you aware that it is almost MW have you heard af pf of the invention odthe the steam eva the locomotive e un and a the telegraph have you e ew va 3 1 dreamed while you are wrapped in the panoply of ofa op imperfection perfection oi of human wis wisdom doin that knighty anig 1 are sub hviding the vast field of science and bursa I 1 the boulay mouldy cerements cere egre ments of old gayso and acrid applying searching sAr ching intellect and ample means to develop fac fattah is every department of human havey even learned that the ancient cry teat is diallo dial th the 0 ephesians ephesia is iio no longer with th those oso v think and reasons is to a miga mi fall under the invincible arguments of the saints Isain I 1 god clothed eternal priesthood and dw doc craft shaking with the ape agues at obedience to t the j ow 7 j mand iBan dif if any are bick ick among you oti send for the ai erg eig and andrall shall hall the stagnant maaring maa aing of old traditions and forms never be examined d disturbed that happiness may flow whore myo Y the symbolical naine Jut ratin waft craft has I 1 u up p misery mountains high i 9 we may be asked I 1 if we intend to coave idea that among so many reforms law has W entirely entirely stationary by when as jeremy Ben hamand a host of kindred kindred I 1 jag have lent jent their the very otje 9 if 4 have arf i IT view but h men haye exerted power at wide inter butone but one I 1 or at most moot c V ively few at a lime while the priests 01 ol law temple cover over whose gate is as written mystery berj far below in talent but y ahead numbers num bera and powerfully aided ajae ilby by their father 0 devil haveko have to abis day admirably managed keep up the popularity of the craft but I 1 wo we io i to you lal lawyers your dg days ys are ire fast numbering I 1 it the time is ie hastening when the I 1 honest oppre sai 1 and shall be freed from your anari your senseless technicalities your miserable your w ady I 1 and unmerciful q an and d you be alloa to a livelihood jn a u oi ll 11 1 ful dav wa X by raising rw iain g wheat w al eat and I 1 now dear r I 1 atia as we I 1 do thai that I 1 hiie wall defered efer e 4 f to 10 aad pd what AA we haye have taj are sv su I 1 I 1 I 1 chent preface ace vp we will proceed with our subject sit s SU I 1 briefly as aa possible I 1 I 1 the clear tb ink ilav close thinking g reasoning and I 1 ge g gea ous jeremy bentham attended the law I 1 a vl 1 ture tares s of blackstone commentaries now ai 6 readily detected the fallacy of many of his a rip I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 7 i IMPI 1 1 I 1 1 ment saad ard the absurdity ofa of im high sounding worship of the english common las lay soon after t bei being ng ad admitted bitted to the liar bar he became I 1 disgusted with i the swindling operations of aa law w and law practice and quit the profession to spend send hs his life as he writes I 1 endeavoring to put an end to the system rather I 1 than profit by it and courageously lent his powerful mind to that end during the remainder of his 1 long and laborious we life when bentham was admitted mi t te d to the bar he found the law and practice 1 sustained by the learned andee and wealthy althy ad ahu almost t I 1 worshiped through tradition by the poor and I 1 ignorant with all its i abominations it had long been looked upon as the perfection of human wis wisdom but a mind so discriminating discriminating as benthams Ben thams and so full fully y informed on law history could not fail to discern that however applicable appl cable in in the times and places p acea in in which they originated laws handed hande I 1 down blended and patched through so 0 o ina Hyen pen lunes and from so many rude nations must be con coit fused inapplicable and oppressive and add he was the first man who nh n studiously continuously contini bously undertook to expose their defects debets the touchstone lie he apol el e l was a well gro grounded utility by which he destea every question by what he called the exhaustive hau stive system of f reasoning B blithe lithe was far in in advance of the age age 7 and law worship p was so prevalent alent and deeply rooted that from the king to the beggar almost e very every one was vas ready to bait his name out for evil for dating dad ing to disturb the consecrated dust dast of the old oi 01 ages A commentator on bentham has made some remarks that wein we in turn tura shall take the liberty to comment upon he says that bentham was not guilty of the absurdity that the laws lawa can be written so plain that the me meanest nest capacity caja city can under s and them fully and apply them without mistakes to all the varieties of human rights and wrongs und ind the ei ever er shifting fing vagaries and exigencies of human society were we not somewhat acquainted quain ted with the process by which truth is is arrived dt at and with th the e force of tradition we might pass the above quotation as one written to round a period but who expects the brightest capacity to be able to act the universal judge and appy apply all kinds of 0 law both national and international among all nations and to all individuals in in their I 1 present condition and though this cannot now be done stilt still it does not should not and cannot long prevent a wise people from framing wise i se laws and writing whitin them so plain that the various port ons I 1 thereof so far ds as applicable to the meanest I 1 capacity can be fully understood and easily an and readily applied by that capacity without mistakes mistake I 1 to lo all the varieties of its rights and wrongs and the I 1 ever shifting vagaries aid and exigencies of its ks society and being thoroughly convinced that law can be made strictly applicable and plain andr all vagaries and exigencies to the levei several al capacities of the people tor for whom it is is designed we do not intend to toreasa beasa hoping that the time will soon arrive when so desirable an end will be accomplished nor to cease our efforts in aiding its attainment will any one be so foolish as to assert that our text tet is is not plain and not adapted to the comprehend I 1 eion ein of tho the meanest capacity we trow not neither do we think the iia meanest eanest capacity of the meanest lawyer who has been doubly distilled and refined in the law alembic of 04 endless and unmerciful quibbles bould tt obud venture his bis reputation in an effort to pick a flaw in iii tho the will for does it not plainly state that if any one kicks up a tow row or makes any fuss about it he shall not have anything 7 completely dispensing aih wi ii lawyers and law forms in its formation and what w hat is more admirable than all heading off their keenest craft in the tha opening and proving the will and dividing tho the property pro party and steering entirely clear of the double warped wound round twisted and tucked lucked in with half the elings fly flying dug laws I 1 on descent and distribution I 1 now we all know that the is drilled into the idea that a will roust must be drawn up by I 1 a lawyer or under legal advice or it will be full of holes and flaws and notwithstanding forms are printed from time to time should you happen to fo follow I 1 one woe to your heirs when your will I 1 opened the proceedings of legal craft in these cases would I 1 I 1 amuse us were they not so often exercised at the expense of the honest and honorable and always remind t I 1 us of the like movements of the other professional crafts men upon the gates of whose temples the same word mystery tery is written for if by accident the doctor puts forth a book or a prescription containing all the knowledge and plainness he possesses on that point he invariably cautions igns the people they must not trust to their judgment in ift the matter but bat consult tile the best medical advice with but I 1 one exception before taken to be well shaken 11 and the priest especially in a city though he and his church members and every one with eyes see the dark pool of corruption creaming with the slime of rottenness within khz church and without nev never er sends the of plain pointed tightly rightly worded teachings of crimes with applications application to persons when needed as thou art the man to stir and purify 1 I 1 the waters but pursues the old humdrum channel I 1 of great is the mystery of godliness without ever knowing its application and the tha people love to have I 1 it so are there no honorable and good lawyers doctors and priests yes yea many very very many who are an honor and a benefit to their race it is the practices ers and worshippers wor woi shippers of craft that we assail that man may go free and stand erect with the intellect that god has given him and grap grapple ld traditions with a power that will hurl babylon to the earth to rise no more again is not the law contained in the ten commandments mand ments plain and adapted to the comprehension of I 1 the meanest in eanest capacity and should not all law for governing human actions be written in plainness and righteousness to be consistent with its signification j viz a rule of right founded in justice injustice if icso to cannot the spirit of eternal truth again dictate the ideas and forth the words of plain law perfectly aepli cable to the time peopled people and circumstance where it may be required the constitution of the uni united ted and is plain and clear states nv was as thus dictated as as the unclouded sun aim of noon and as applicable to tile the intricate and varied national and international trade and commerce com merco of a powerful nation of upwards of twenty millions of people as it was to the comparative ral live meagre requirements of the original thirteen colonies with three millions all ta this simply because the b hand an d of god was in the law making department ai and do you wish to thrust it out forever that it appear P 1 not again to regulate its own creations with sim eim I 1 jp pla io eternal and immutable rules if so you must fail for ho he whose right it is to reign will reign and his laws will be plain laws and adapted to the understanding of the meanest capacity to the fuli ful i lest extent of the actions ac ns of that cape capacity lacity our sermon on the text has exceeded the beug leug length th we i intended and there is still opportunity epport unity which we may improve should we have leisure and the people desire it |