UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES 
 
 SCHOOL OF LAW 
 LIBRARY
 
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 Before the Graduating Class of the Columbia College Law School, at the 
 Academy of Music, New York, May 17th, 1882. 
 
 BY CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW. 
 
 GENTLEMEN : 
 
 This is tlie most interesting period of your 
 lives. Behind is the preparation, before preparation 
 and application of the stores you have and those you 
 will acquire. The hour of graduation is always full of 
 precious memoirs and bright anticipations. The final 
 review of the work done and its results, the last linger- 
 ing words of admonition and advice, the separation from 
 teachers and classmates, the sundering of ties never to 
 be re-united, except in memory, the God speed, the good 
 bye, and you are alone amidst the contending forces, 
 necessities and ambitions of real life. Are you ready ? 
 The world is a generous adversary. Sooner or 
 later it yields its prizes of independence and honor to 
 those who merit them. The profession welcomes you 
 with open arms. It places neither jealousies nor obsta- 
 cles in the way, but with its cordial greeting gives 
 encouragement and assistance. Trades unions limit the 
 number of their apprentices, and resist by every process 
 the acquiring of their crafts. But the temple of the law 
 has its doors always open for those who would study and 
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 think you know so much as you do to-night, and your 
 
 future will be dependent upon how far you appreciate 
 the fact, that you have only found the road and how to 
 travel it. 
 
 All about us are the wrecks of those for whom the 
 clock struck twelve when they received their diplomas. 
 The valedictorians of the college, the brilliant victors of 
 the moot courts, who fail to fulfill the promise of their 
 youth, have neglected to continue the study and lost 
 the enthusiasm to which they owed their triumphs on 
 mimic battle fields. Business men may have a lucky 
 stroke of fortune, preachers may buy or borrow sermons, 
 quacks may win riches by a patent medicine, but the 
 lawyer can rely on no one but himself. He is like the 
 Knight in the Ancient Tournament, when the Herald 
 sounded the trumpet, and he rode down the lists, 
 whether he splintered his enemy's lance, or was un- 
 horsed himself, depended upon his own prowess and skill. 
 Upon his advice men risk their character and fortunes. 
 In the exigencies of the trial, he wins or loses by his 
 own knowedge of his case, his ability to draw from a 
 well stocked armory, the principles to meet unexpected 
 issues, his readiness to seize and turn to instant advant- 
 age testimony which can help, or avert the force of that 
 which can harm, by his trained ability to so discern and 
 analyze amidst the mass of conflicting evidence the 
 truth he seeks, and so present his cause to the court and 
 jury that he brings them both to his own convictions. 
 This can only be done by thorough preparation and 
 laborious study continued all through life. 
 
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 The early years before a practice comes, are full of 
 ^ opportunity and danger. Some fall out from weariness 
 ^ and hopelessness. But there never yet was a man who 
 -^ deserved success, and doggedly and persistently pursued 
 g who did not win it. " You will hear me yet," said Dis- 
 raeli, as he sank into his seat amid the jeers and laughter 
 of the House of Commons. It took years devoted to 
 study in every department before the threat was accom- 
 plished. But when recognition came, the man was so 
 magnificently equipped that he stepped at once into and 
 ever afterwards held, the leader's place. The despised 
 Jew, rising to be the commander and oracle of the oldest 
 and proudest of aristocracies, the prime minister of the 
 most enlightened and powerful of empires, and a Peer of 
 England, remains a bright beacon, lighting the way 
 from exertion to triumph. But it is v r ery difficult with 
 no immediate motive or present incentive, to study and 
 read while waiting for clients. It requires discipline 
 and is discipline. It tests the question of fitness for the 
 work of the profession. 
 
 The benefactions of the wealthv have built and 
 
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 stored great libraries, and the opportunities for learning 
 nre all about us. The vast resources of History enlarg. 
 ing the understanding by familiarity with the events and 
 men of all times, the development of mankind and the 
 progress of civilization, give a comprehensive and per- 
 manent grasp of the principles learned in the schools, 
 by a knowledge of their origin, incidents and accidents ; 
 the broad and inviting fields of general literature, equip 
 with accuracy of language, fertility of illustration, and
 
 that indefinable force, which all recognize as power. 
 In some branch of general reading, the mind finally 
 strikes a subject, for which a special faculty exists, and 
 enthusiasm and aptitude furnish the superiority which 
 paves the way to vocation and success. As the law 
 controls all the relations of life, regulates international 
 disputes, and settles the rights and redresses the wrongs 
 of all classes, conditions and pursuits ; so from the lim- 
 itless range of inquiry and knowledge no weapon comes 
 amiss. 
 
 All great lawyers have been remarkable for the ex- 
 tent and versatility of their acquirements. The works 
 of Bacon and Brougham, Talfourd's delightful life of 
 Charles Lamb, Chief-Justice Marshall's Washington, and 
 Wirt's Patrick Henrv, the contributions of Kent and 
 
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 Story, are marvelous monuments of improved opportu- 
 nities outside the law, strengthening and gracing its pro- 
 fession and practice. But how, except a man has extra- 
 ordinary endowments, can all this be done? Your 
 studies have made you familiar with the value of method, 
 and yet odd hours are a life time. I said to Henry J. 
 Raymond when he was writing the life of Lincoln, " how 
 is it possible for you, editing a great daily newspaper, 
 and immersed in public affairs, to find time for the re- 
 search necessary to gather the materials and for the com- 
 position of this work ?" He answered : " An hoiir con- 
 scientiously devoted every morning before breakfast will 
 soon fill a library." When I graduated at Yale, that won- 
 derful old man, the elder Professor Silliman, then in his 
 eightieth year, said, " Young gentlemen, as the result of
 
 my experience and observations, I have one piece of ad- 
 vice to give you ; improve with reading the odd five 
 minutes. r It is astonishing how many of them there 
 are. 
 
 I trust you will all get married, not, however, until 
 you are able to. support a wife, for that has spoiled many 
 a promising career ; but the sooner after the better. 
 You will discover then that the peculiarity of the female 
 mind is a contempt for punctuality. Instead of storm- 
 ing, or ruining your peace and her temper, because of 
 the long waits before dinner, or church, or the theatre, 
 or the party, follow Professor Silliman's advice, and not 
 the least of the obligations you will owe your wife, will 
 be the opportunity to explore the whole field of litera- 
 ture. President Grarfield made it a rule, from which he 
 never deviated, to read ten lines of the classics, and three 
 pages in some book of solid worth every day, and he 
 was the best informed and most accomplished public 
 man of this generation. 
 
 Some men fail because they have mistaken their 
 calling. The patient research, unflagging zeal, and fac- 
 ulty to sift and discriminate, is not granted to every one, 
 even if greatly gifted in other ways. For the best in- 
 terests of the man and the world, the moment the discov- 
 ery is made, the profession should be abandoned. 
 Putting square pegs in round holes, ruins both the 
 peg and the hole. Many are struggling with poverty 
 and despair in the law, who would benefit society and 
 enrich themselves in the management of affairs. Two 
 graduates of a la\v school have been to me within a few
 
 years and each said : " I have thoroughly tested the 
 question and find I have mistaken my vocation. My 
 talent is for business alone," One was willing to begin 
 as a brakeman and work up to be President, and the 
 other preferred starting in the more attractive uniform 
 of a conductor. But I honored their modesty and cour- 
 age. Burke, and Fielding, and Cowper, and Gray failed 
 at the law, and earned undying fame in Statesmanship 
 and literature, while American journalism and letters 
 owe their best contributions and purest fame to the 
 early discovery and rectification of this mistake by Bry- 
 ant, Longfellow, and Irving. The Country is full of 
 successful merchants, manufacturers, and railroad man- 
 agers who have deserted the law, for which they were 
 not fitted, and followed the bent of their genius, but 
 who are nevertheless superior to their fellows in the 
 same pursuits, because of their training in and familiar- 
 ity with the grand fundamental principles of Jurisprud- 
 ence. 
 
 Integrity, not alone of character, but to opinions 
 and duty, is the first element of a good lawyer. The 
 property of a client which comes into his possession can 
 neither be borrowed nor loaned. It is a sacred trust, to 
 be instantly and scrupulously accounted for. Because 
 of laxity to this principle, without dishonesty in intent 
 or result, I have seen many a brilliant and promising 
 career stopped ; and many a conscientious plodder, by 
 his fidelity and quick payments, win both honor and in- 
 come, and become the custodian of large interests and 
 estates. But in a broader sense must his integrity be
 
 conspicuous. It is safe to say lie can never be bribed to 
 betray his client, and that he will not misappropriate 
 the funds in his hands. For though holding larger 
 trusts than all other vocations combined, and without 
 security, the record of the profession in its fiduciary re- 
 lations is of unexampled purity. But he must not be 
 intimidated. A new tribunal judges and pre-judges 
 causes, before which he cannot plead, and that is trial by 
 newspaper. The press controls the Government, and 
 makes and unmakes public men, and in the natural ten- 
 dency to magnify power, it influences the administration 
 of justice. Having decided in advance the merits of a 
 controversy, or the guilt of the accused, it assails with 
 vigor the unpopular side. With the clouds thus thrown 
 about the case and which threatens to involve them, 
 some lawyers decline, or if retained, perform their duty 
 with apology and timidity. But deterred neither by 
 misrepresentation or unpopularity, the advocate, true to 
 his oath and office, in proportion as such difficulties sur- 
 round him, will rise with mightier effort, to vindicate by 
 his courage and learning, in behalf of his client, both 
 his honor and his profession. 
 
 It is not alone by the brilliant triumphs of the ad- 
 vocate, but as advisor and friend, that the lawyer finds 
 his sphere of largest usefulness. He discourages suits, 
 and encourages settlements. He cools the passions, and 
 promotes the interests of his clients. He inculcates jus- 
 tice by making it profitable. He mediates between 
 warring neighbors and secures the confidence and 
 friendships of both. He discourages litigation, and,
 
 while promoting good fellowship, in the end increases 
 his own retainers. He becomes an educator and bene- 
 factor in that broad sense which points out the right and 
 enforces it. While dissenting utterly from Brougham's 
 maxim, to stand by his client right or wrong, and even 
 if it involves the ruin of his country, he finds the law so 
 unsettled by conflicting decisions, the facts so subject to 
 the lights and shadows of ignorance, memory and pre- 
 judice, that he rarely will have a case or client, to which 
 or whom it will not be his duty, with devotion and en- 
 thusiasm, to give his best efforts, leaving to the skill of 
 his adversary, the learning and guidance of the Judge, 
 and the verdict of the Jury, the vindication of the right. 
 The vast enterprises of our times, the enormous 
 profits of business and speculation, the rapid accumula- 
 tion of gigantic fortunes, the intensity of industrial activ- 
 ities, the limitless expansion of production and commerce, 
 the palaces of the wealthy rising on every side, and the 
 adulation to and power of money, are the hope and des- 
 pair of the profession. These elements enlarge the 
 limits of practice and narrow the possibility of competi- 
 tion, in the acquisition and fruits of riches. New issues 
 to be settled, new relations to be adjusted, corporations 
 and individuals to be advised, and large interests to be 
 protected, increase the demand for trained, skilled and 
 able counselors far beyond the supply, while the dis- 
 tractions of society and luxury, and the temptations of 
 other pursuits enervate and deplete the ranks as fast as 
 they are recruited. The sooner the young lawyer eman- 
 cipates himself from this absorbing mania, for fortune,
 
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 the better for his usefulness and fame. The wonderful 
 creations and profits of inventions, the ventures of the 
 street and the exchange, the concentration of forces by 
 which one rnan reaps the harvest sown by thousands, 
 with machinery, are not his opportunity. In an age 
 when steam and electricity reduplicate the powers and 
 profits of business, his rewards are only those from his 
 own exertions. While exacting; fall and fair returns for 
 
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 his skill and acquirements, his success is in knowledge 
 and its power, in the superiority of intellectual over ma- 
 terial forces, in his unquestioned influence in society and 
 the state, and, with prudence and frugality, in an income 
 which guarantees his independence, a competence for 
 his old age, and an estate for his family. 
 
 Nations have preserved their liberties, and patriots 
 have won glorious victories by the examples and inspi- 
 ration of the past. Heroic sacrifices, grand achieve- 
 ments, memorable battle fields, the triumphs of States- 
 men in the Cabinet, of orators in the Senate, of advo- 
 cates in the forum, are the incentives to high endeavor 
 and solid progress. We are " the heirs of all the ages in 
 the foremost files of time," and the accumulations of all 
 the past are our inheritance. But no other profession 
 or pursuit has behind it exemplars and a history like 
 the law. Its teachers have been the the foes of anarchy, 
 misrule, and tyranny, and its principles form the found- 
 ation of governments and the palladium of rights. Call 
 the roll, and you summon (rod's chosen ministers of civ- 
 ilization and reform. It was not Pericles but Solon and 
 his Statutes who made possible Grecian power and pro-
 
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 gress ; it was not her legions, but her twelve tables, 
 which made Rome the mistress of the World ; it was not 
 the defeat of the Moslem hordes, but the discovery of 
 the pandects which preserved Europe ; it was not the 
 Norman Conqueror, but the common law which evolved 
 out of chaos, revolution and despotism, constitutional 
 freedom. Bacon, Coke, Blackstone, Mansfield, Brough- 
 am, Erskine, Curran, Marshall, Hamilton, Jay, Living- 
 stone, Kent, Story, Webster, and hundreds of others, 
 who by the law, and through the law, have done more 
 for peoples' and States than all the warriors of the 
 world, are here to welcome you to their fellowship. 
 
 In the sack of the Italian City of Amalfi, a copy of the 
 pandects was discovered, the study of the civil law sprang 
 up all over Europe, and its administration passed from 
 the hands of the Ecclesiastics, to its trained professors. 
 In revenge, the Council of the Church held at Amalfi de- 
 creed that no lawyer could enter the Kingdom of Heaven. 
 But the lawyers have requited this anathema, by largely 
 converting the Nations from the Hell of Arms to the 
 Heaven of Arbitration. Few of the Barons at Runny- 
 mede could read and their sword hilts were their marks, 
 but the lawyers improved upon their demands, by graft- 
 ing upon the Great Charter those Saxon liberties for the 
 individual, embodied in that noble sentiment of the last 
 will of King Alfred, that "it was just, the English should 
 forever remain as free as their own thoughts." It was the 
 Courts and not the Commons which convinced the great 
 and arbitrary Queen Elizabeth, that there were limits to 
 the Royal prerogative, and warned Charles the First, that
 
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 taxation without representation might cost him his head. 
 When submission and servility were threatening the in- 
 tegrity of English Institutions it was Chief Justice Coke 
 who steadied wavering patriotism with the grand senti- 
 ment "that power which is above law, is not fit for the 
 King to ask or the people to yield."' King James the 
 First, pedantic, pig headed and a tyrant, said "I will dis- 
 pense Justice in person and reverse decrees at will." The 
 Judges firmly replied "that, by the Constitution, can only 
 be done by men learned in the law." "Then I will show 
 what common sense and common honesty can do" said 
 the King "by sitting with you." But on the third day 
 he abandoned the judgment seat cured, saying, "when one 
 side speaks, the case is clear, but when the other closes, 
 upon my soul I cannot tell which is right." English 
 statesmen had guaranteed the protection of slavery in the 
 West Indies, and the property and prosperity of thous- 
 ands were dependent upon the pledge. The policy of 
 the government, the interests of trade were all enlisted 
 in its support. But when Lord Mansfield said "I know 
 the promises of the cabinet and the immense sums of 
 money involved. Since, however, the question is before 
 me, fiat justia mat ccelum, a slave cannot breathe the air 
 of England" then was human slavery doomed all over 
 the world. Jt was as a law student that Cromwell learn- 
 ed those principles, which caused him to pledge for- 
 tune and life to the motto,"that resistance to tyrants is 
 obedience to God;'^ and when the gay cavalier went down 
 before the resistless charge of his Ironsides, the freedom 
 and development of the English speaking world was as-
 
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 slired. He established peace and liberty at home, and 
 enlarged the power and possessions of his country abroad, 
 and though Charles the Second, by violating the law, 
 might squander this glorious inheritance, and disinter the 
 remains of the great Protector, and hang them at Tyburn, 
 his spirit crossed the seas in the Mayflower and founded 
 this Republic. 
 
 There were one hundred and sixty crimes for which 
 men and women were put to death in the time of Black- 
 stone, and Sir Matthew Hale hung for theft and burned 
 for witchcraft. But surpassing all the theories and la- 
 bors of other philantrophists, the humanity and learning 
 of Romilly, Mclutosh and Brougham, formulated into 
 practical legislation those beneficent opinions, by which 
 only for treason and murder shall a man forfeit his life. 
 
 The American revolution was not a sentiment but 
 a principle. It was not only an outburst of patriotism 
 but a struggle for the maintenance of law. We remem- 
 ber now only the heroes of the battle-fields, but it was 
 a lawyers' war. The long and terrible contest against 
 civilized and savage foes in the effort to break the French 
 power on this Continent, which ended in the tragic and 
 immortal fate of Wolfe and Montcalm at Quebec, in- 
 ured and trained the people to arms, but the lawyers 
 taught them their rights. It was the liberties guaran- 
 teed Englishmen by the Magna Charta, the Habeas 
 Corpus, the Bill of Rights and the common law for 
 which they fought. Glorious as are the lives and pre- 
 cious the memories of Washington, Greene, Putnam and 
 Wayne, they only maintained in the field the ideas
 
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 which the Bar and the Bench, whose members^arealniost 
 forgotten} embodied in addresses to the king and parlia- 
 ment, and in the Declaration of Independence, and after 
 the soldier had sheathed his sword, in the National and 
 State constitutions. These documents are instinct with 
 the doctrines for which for hundreds of years their 
 fathers had died in battle, resisted the crown from the 
 Bench, and shed their blood upon the block. 
 
 On the Oth of September, 1777, the first term of 
 the Supreme Court of our State was held at Kingston. 
 That Constitution which has served as a model for the 
 United States and most of the States, had just been 
 adopted. The seven Nationalities, represented on the 
 Committee of thirteen which framed it, illustrated and 
 foreshadowed the cosmopolitan and tolerant character 
 of the people of New York. Burgoyne, with his army 
 of veterans, victors of many European battlefields, was 
 marching with apparently resistless force from Canada, 
 and Sir Henry Clinton was gathering soldiers and sloops 
 of war to meet him at Albany. Patriot and Tory alike 
 saw in the success of the movement, the ruin of the 
 American Cause. It was the darkest hour of the strug- 
 gle, and within a few weeks the village and court house 
 were burned by the enemy. Almost within the sound 
 of the guns and war whoops of the advancing foe, with 
 calm confidence and dignified assurance, that great 
 jurist, Chief Justice Jay, charged the Grand Jury in the 
 following words : " The infatuated sovereign of Great 
 Britain, has, by destroying our former Constitutions, 
 enabled us to erect more eligible systems of government
 
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 on their ruins, and by unwarrantable attempts to bind 
 us in all cases whatever, has reduced us to the happy 
 necessity of being free from his control in any. But let 
 it be remembered that whatever mark of wisdom, expe- 
 rience and patriotism there may be in your Constitu- 
 tion, it is yet like the beautiful symmetry of our first par- 
 ents, to be animated by the breath of life ; from the 
 people it must receive its spirit, and by them, be quick- 
 ened. Let virtue, honor, the love of liberty and science, 
 be and remain in the soul of this Constitution, and it 
 will become the source of great and extensive happiness 
 to this and future generations." 
 
 Ours is and always has been a government con- 
 trolled by lawyers. In this De Tocqueville recognized 
 its greatest claim to stability and expansion. The pro- 
 fession has contributed seventeen of the twenty-one 
 Presidents of the United States, and voiced cabinets and 
 councils. It may be that their rule has been character- 
 ized by compromises and makeshifts, but it has success- 
 fully adapted an untried system to new and unexpected 
 emergencies. Its radicalism has always tended to the 
 preservation of liberty, the maintenance of order and 
 the protection of property. Lawyers can be agitators 
 without becoming communists, and reformers without 
 being demagogues. They have codified the laws, 
 brushed away the subtleties of practice, abolished those 
 fictions of law and equity which defeated justice, and 
 secured to women the administration and disposition of 
 their property ; and yet liberties are always so enlarged 
 as to preserve essential rights.
 
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 Alexander Hamilton so settled the law of libel and 
 the liberty of the press, that his brief became part of 
 the constitution of States and the law of England, and 
 yet he devised the financial system which carried through 
 the revolutionary war. Salmon P. Chase died Chief- 
 Justice of the United States, and yet it was his scheme 
 of credit which sustained the Nation in its great contest. 
 The Geneva Arbitrators and the Electoral Commission, 
 with the lawyers' tribunal and weapons, peacefully 
 settled questions of International controversy and gov- 
 ernmental succession, which in all former times were de- 
 cided by the wager of battle or bloody civil strife. 
 
 The paramount question of the present hour is how 
 the conditions of to-day can be adjusted to the accepted 
 doctrines of the past. Steam and electricity and the 
 unification of business and social relations, have oblit- 
 erated State lines. Centralization has been the fear of 
 former generations, and Caesarism the temporary madness 
 of the present. But the imaginary evils of the one and 
 illusory perils of the other, face, with a commercial peo- 
 ple, the imperative necessities of law and business. That 
 men and women should be married in one State and 
 divorced in another, their children legitimate in one 
 jurisdiction and illegitimate in another, is an offence 
 against morals, and a disgrace to our jurisprudence. 
 That railway, express, telegraph and insurance compa- 
 nies are subject to varied, contradictory, antagonistic 
 and imperfect regulation and taxation in each Common- 
 wealth where they operate, is the opportunity of the 
 agitator, the despair of the manager, and the danger of
 
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 the investor. The school of Jefferson did not foresee 
 the effect upon our institutions of invention and discov- 
 ery. It is for the lawyer- statesmen, whether in or out of 
 office, to first eradicate time-honored prejudices, and 
 then, by adjustment upon a broad, comprehensive and 
 national basis, to prove the elasticity and capabilities of 
 constitutional freedom in a federative Kepublic. 
 
 Despotisms and Democracies converge in the effort 
 to control personal conditions and business principles by 
 laws and regulations. With the one it leads to tyranny, 
 with the other to the curse of over-legislation, and its 
 constant modification and repeal, unsettling trade and 
 values. If the Legislature met but once in four years, 
 not a single interest would suffer, and security and sta- 
 bility would promote prosperity. With an Ancient 
 people, every man who proposed a new law, did so with 
 a rope around his neck, signifying his willingness to be 
 hung if it worked badly. If that rule prevailed with 
 us, the multitude of public executions would enforce, as 
 no other experience could, that most beneficent maxim : 
 " That Government is best, which governs least." 
 
 The duty of a lawyer to his profession and the 
 State compels him to be a politician, but until success is 
 assured he cannot be an office holder. His training fits 
 him to educate public sentiment and resist popular delu- 
 sions, but he cannot enter public life without losing his 
 practice. Many a young man has gone to the Legisla- 
 ture expecting to find by the acquaintance and reputa- 
 tion it gives, a speedy road to clients and income, and 
 discovered that he has permanently lost both. It is said
 
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 that there are three thousand college graduates in this 
 city who cannot earn a living. It is because theory has 
 overweighted practice, and educated sense has eradicat- 
 ed common sense. Remember that every man knows 
 more than you think he does, and the great mass mean 
 to do right, and respect justice according to their lights. 
 You have studied the architecture of the Temple of the 
 Law, with its base covered with Egyptian hieroglyphs 
 and Hebrew texts, its Roman columns and Grecian cap- 
 itals, its massive handiwork of Norman and Saxon. But 
 it has often been leveled to the ground. Though full 
 covenant deeds have been found in mummy cases ; 
 though Solon enacted statutes upon wills, debtors, cred- 
 itors and bankruptcy, parent and child, and pensions to 
 soldiers ; though the Rhodians had a maritime code cen- 
 turies before Christ, and Athens, consuls and courts of 
 Admiralty ; though Cicero borrowed money upon mort- 
 gage, and Rome recognized the principle of compensa 
 tion for private property taken for public use ; force and 
 corruption swept away every vestige of law and shred 
 of right, and the world retrograded to barbarism and 
 despotism. For dark ages following this brilliant civil- 
 ization, upon the grave of every principle of justice and 
 equity, might was the only right. The teachings of the 
 Nazarene have brought Nations and races into harmoni- 
 ous relations, established the worth and independence of 
 the individual, and given perpetuity to law and justice. 
 You are the custodians, exponents and defenders of the 
 law thus regenerated and disenthralled, and your future 
 is dependent upon your own industry, integrity and 
 manhood.
 
 PAMPHLET BINDER 
 
 Syracuse, N. Y. j 
 Stocttton. Calif. 
 
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