Show LAW IN AMERICAN COURTS there was in the old country a day that to be a witness in favor of one who was accused was iu in a sub gub ideary way to incur the belief of bing also a criminal and witnesses were treated like brutes tile the lawyers in our countr country y trained in the old school never making themselves acquainted with tile the civilization of 0 this american people are also brutes brute to witnesses not oneff one of us but would rather give a hundred dollars than see a sister or a wire wife or a female relative lela leia tive placed on the ilia stand to be outraged by a bar of gentlemen in ill the presence of ab a bench rich calling themselves gentlemen once in in boston a young servant girl gentle and anil honest saw a tra transfer of money and forne fraudulent affair occurring in connection with it she was summoned iu in her timidity and aud innocence into a boston chirt of gentlemen she gave her testimony truthfully and well then there arose to cross question her one born ot of one of the best families ta milies a lawyer possen possessing ilig all scholarly acquirement a graduate of Ildr vard arid and a pink of fashion he knew of no r buke from any bench so he be proceeded to insinuate the vilest insult insults that ever in mail ii uttered to a woman and asked such questions till the girl almost fainted yet thai that court of gentlemen never said a word of rebuke the ibe poor gh I 1 went home almost heartbroken heart broken to hold down her head for years at the remembrance of that injustice and insult the lawyer went to a larger city to obtain a wider field for his talents and he sleeps tonight to night in a drunkards grave too good for such a brute as he lie was and today to day the bar knows not why wily it should not by insinuation and question put upon the brightest character a foul ill blot biot 0 t and often witnesses are treated as badly as in the days ol 01 jeffries and ellenborough Ellen ElIen borough wendell phillips |