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 through constitutional measures, which otherwise would have triumphed only through fire and blood.

Probably no calling has been more maligned than the legal profession. Entrusted with responsibilities extending alike to the proudest ruler and the humblest citizen, covering with its broad mantle all the vital interests of society by its culmination in the supposed wisdom and integrity of the judicial ermine, before whose decisions both church and state bow in reverent homage, there is none which calls for a higher exercise of all those pre-eminent virtues which constitute the true Christian, patriot and statesman. On the other side, through its monopoly of the knowledge of the technicalities of the law, about which the mass of the people take no trouble to inform themselves, there is no profession in which an unscrupulous man can so openly and respectably trifle with the most momentous interests of the human family, individually or collectively, as in the practice of law. Society is not guiltless so long as it delegates irresponsible powers to any class of men inheriting the common passions and vices of mankind, and such powers are delegated whenever, blind to its own interests, or forgetful of the Supreme Ruler of the universe, it permits human laws to override the divine.

Walter Claremont was too honest to take advantage of any ambiguous phrase where the intentional meaning was not to be denied, but his influence in presenting the moral bearings of the case contributed materially towards gaining a decision in favor of Mrs. Carleton.