. The life and times of Col. James Fisk, Jr. : being a full and impartial account of the remarkable career of a most remarkable man, together with sketches of all the important personages with whom he was thrown in contact ... and a financial history of the country for the last three years, embracing also the lives of Helen Josephine Mansfield ... and Edward S. Stokes . . Messrs. Field and Shearman, after much difficulty anddelay, got on the track of the unknown person who wasrepresenting their clients, wrung the case out of his hands,and gained a position where the plaintiff was compelled tof
. The life and times of Col. James Fisk, Jr. : being a full and impartial account of the remarkable career of a most remarkable man, together with sketches of all the important personages with whom he was thrown in contact ... and a financial history of the country for the last three years, embracing also the lives of Helen Josephine Mansfield ... and Edward S. Stokes . . Messrs. Field and Shearman, after much difficulty anddelay, got on the track of the unknown person who wasrepresenting their clients, wrung the case out of his hands,and gained a position where the plaintiff was compelled toface them with his proofs. He broke down utterly and hiscomplaint was dismissed. Afterward he and his backersraised a clamor that he had been forced to trial with hishands tied. In truth his hands were as loose as need be, butthey were not clean enough to be shown. If no counsellor can be concerned for Fisk and Gould inany case whatever without becoming infamous, it followsthat no court can, without incurring a similar penalty, ex-tend the protection of the law to their plainest rights. Theyare mere outlaws; they may be slandered, swindled, robbedwith impunity, and it shall come to pass that whosoeverfindeth them shall slay them.* If this be consistent with the * This was written, and in the hands of the printer, before the assassinationof Colonel Fisk.— IN CONFIDENCE WITHJOStE
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