Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . tookthe suit in great said he did not wantany country lawyer —meaning me — to controlthe method of fitting outships for the East Indiatrade ; that it was as goodas it could be ; that everj^-thing for their comfortand convenience was givento the crew, and that thecase should be fought asfar as he could go. Heemployed a lawyer, after-wards most famous as anadvocate, G. A. Somerby,Esq., and also the Hon. Rufus Choate, who was the first advocate
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . tookthe suit in great said he did not wantany country lawyer —meaning me — to controlthe method of fitting outships for the East Indiatrade ; that it was as goodas it could be ; that everj^-thing for their comfortand convenience was givento the crew, and that thecase should be fought asfar as he could go. Heemployed a lawyer, after-wards most famous as anadvocate, G. A. Somerby,Esq., and also the Hon. Rufus Choate, who was the first advocate ofNew England if not of the United States. I had with me a younggentleman who did not practise much in the courts in the trial ofcases,— a relative of the plaintiff and quite capable. As I had beennotified, every possible defence was to be taken. In the first placethey were to claim that the ship was entirely properly fitted out asregards provisions; second, that there was no place in which the shipcould stop to get even fresh potatoes ; and, third, that my clienthadnt the scurvv at all but a disease which bore no relation to Engraved from a Life-size Bust in General ButlersLibrary. BUTLERS BOOK. 1019 The whole East India trade and a large portion of the Boston mer-chants came as witnesses for the defence. I said to Mr. Choate thatthat defence would cost his client, I was certain, a good deal morethan we had claimed for damages, and that perhaps his client wouldlike to make some settlement, for I confess that I was a little alarmedand scurvy hadnt been much in my line. I knew tliat Captain Cookhad buried the members of his crew who had the scurvy in the earthat the Sandwich Islands to cure them, and that is all I knew, and Isaw very extended and onerous study would be necessary in many partsof the case. Mr. Choate told me it was no use to speak of compro-mise. The East India trade was determined to make an example ofthis case so that its trade should never be interf
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