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Calumny.
institutions , for none are named . Neither was it designed to protect the public , for in that case the certain secure and obvious course of giving particulars and facts , would have been adopted , particularly as such a proceeding , now that truth is no longer libellous , involves no danger . It was not intended to do impartial justice , for we presume the " Law Times " does not pretend to say that all the new offices are under
the guidance of swindlers , and yet the injustice is committed of involving all in a charge , which , without any great stress of meaning , may bear that construction ; and the effects of which , if it have any effects at all , must be to create a distrust of every new society . We cannot divine the intention which led to the discharge of this literary bomb shell , thrown at random into the midst of the good and bad , ( if bad there be )
to injure all alike , except it be that the " Law Times "—one of the organs of a profession , which has several established offices , is afraid of the competition of new societies , conducted on the most improved and beneficial principles , and therefore , being afraid to make pointed and specific allegations , and conscious of its incapability of making out a case , resorts to the underhand , tortuous , and unworthy course of throwing out general accusations , and using insinuations and inuendoes ,
the weapons of the ill-disposed and timidly-malicious . We think that with such a course , the members of the public will have no sympathy , even if it be well-intentioned ; it is injudicious and unjust , but it bears upon its face , evidence of being an error of the heart rather than of the head , and the world is wise enough to distinguish between devotion to the public good , and the promptings of selfishness , manifesting itself in
" envy , malice , and all uncharitableness . " So far as we have been enabled to ascertain , the feeling which we believe to be likely to spread in the public mind , does prevail among the honourable members of the legal profession , who deprecate an attack so evidently unjust , impolitic , and unsupported by anything like proof . The injury which the " Law Times " intended to inflict , will rebound upon itself , covering it with
odium , and the conductors of that periodical will find that it is better not to deal in calumnies , which , like curses and chickens , generally "come home to roost . " In the ignoble character of reviler of new offices , a writer f ' n the "Post Magazine " rejoices extremely ; but he may be safely left until the year 1850 , when , if we mistake not , unless his hide be of the rhinoceros kind , he will betray such muscular twitchings , as may dispose him to regret his folly and imprudence .
WE are prevented from following our customary duty of giving a summary of events , by circumstances in themselves so important that we consider it prudent to pause ; not that there would he anything dis-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Calumny.
institutions , for none are named . Neither was it designed to protect the public , for in that case the certain secure and obvious course of giving particulars and facts , would have been adopted , particularly as such a proceeding , now that truth is no longer libellous , involves no danger . It was not intended to do impartial justice , for we presume the " Law Times " does not pretend to say that all the new offices are under
the guidance of swindlers , and yet the injustice is committed of involving all in a charge , which , without any great stress of meaning , may bear that construction ; and the effects of which , if it have any effects at all , must be to create a distrust of every new society . We cannot divine the intention which led to the discharge of this literary bomb shell , thrown at random into the midst of the good and bad , ( if bad there be )
to injure all alike , except it be that the " Law Times "—one of the organs of a profession , which has several established offices , is afraid of the competition of new societies , conducted on the most improved and beneficial principles , and therefore , being afraid to make pointed and specific allegations , and conscious of its incapability of making out a case , resorts to the underhand , tortuous , and unworthy course of throwing out general accusations , and using insinuations and inuendoes ,
the weapons of the ill-disposed and timidly-malicious . We think that with such a course , the members of the public will have no sympathy , even if it be well-intentioned ; it is injudicious and unjust , but it bears upon its face , evidence of being an error of the heart rather than of the head , and the world is wise enough to distinguish between devotion to the public good , and the promptings of selfishness , manifesting itself in
" envy , malice , and all uncharitableness . " So far as we have been enabled to ascertain , the feeling which we believe to be likely to spread in the public mind , does prevail among the honourable members of the legal profession , who deprecate an attack so evidently unjust , impolitic , and unsupported by anything like proof . The injury which the " Law Times " intended to inflict , will rebound upon itself , covering it with
odium , and the conductors of that periodical will find that it is better not to deal in calumnies , which , like curses and chickens , generally "come home to roost . " In the ignoble character of reviler of new offices , a writer f ' n the "Post Magazine " rejoices extremely ; but he may be safely left until the year 1850 , when , if we mistake not , unless his hide be of the rhinoceros kind , he will betray such muscular twitchings , as may dispose him to regret his folly and imprudence .
WE are prevented from following our customary duty of giving a summary of events , by circumstances in themselves so important that we consider it prudent to pause ; not that there would he anything dis-