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6 Am. L. Times: Published in Connection with the Law Times Reports 1 (1873)

handle is hein.journals/amltoj6 and id is 1 raw text is: THE ,Aulrrriran L4,aw rfi PUBLISHED IN CONNECTION WITH THE LAW TIMES REPORTS, EDITED BY ROWLAND COX, COUNSELOR AT LAW. JR 1873. By the time the present issue of the Law Times reaches its Southern readers we presume they will have discovered the hopelessness of any attempt to secure the passage of the bill to refund the cotton tax. The measure was one that naturally enlisted their liveliest interest, and in prin- ciple, at least, merited the considerate attention of Congress. The effort to effect the object of the bill in the courts failed, perhaps, through accident; while its defeat before the legislative branch will be found to be attributable to a cause that has been productive of very frequent disappointments, some of which have approached the magnitude of public calamities. No sooner was the fact known that such a measure was in contemplation than the adventurers of the Capital seized upon it as an opportunity of rare incidents and proportions. And by the time it had assumed a practicable form substantially every merit seemed to have passed out of sight. From a just and righteous claim the demand became a monstrous job, and as such will inevitably fail. Its history is a striking illustration of a fact which every honorable attorney owes it to himself to recognize. The National Capital is, in respect to its professional citizens, wholly sui generis. It contains the best and worst representative lawyers of the nation-the ablest, safest, most learned, and, as an off-set, a class of whom a proper estimate can hardly be formed. The former occupy a place of their own, and are known chiefly in connection with judicial questions of a national character. The latter are ubiquitous, and are seen by every one who comes in contact with the surface of Washington society. They are gentlemen of desperate remedies and unlimited intellecual resource, many of whom have occupied governmental positions of profit and influence. They are invari- ably men of the largest experience, and, in some instances, of marked lite- rary or social, and not unfrequently legal, acquirements. Generally pos-

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