Show colonial fear 0 lawyer in the columns of the new york gazetteer of 8 there was a paragraph lamenting the increase of lawyers as threatening to the future prosperity of the community and degrading to freaman fream cn an honest trade in former days said the writer was all that people of common ability and education were ambitious of but now no profession la genteel but the lawyer and the merchant the lawyers are now creeping into every post of importance and thrusting themselves wherever there Is a vacancy our congress our assembly are crowded with them and even in our great commercial convention there are five lawyers to one merchant |