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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 1 1 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 21: practice of the law. (search)
my publishers that if health and strength failed me, the rest of my history might be written by an editor who could present that part of my life-work better than I could do it myself, and we had agreed that that editor should be my friend, Mr. James Parton, the historian, who promised, if called upon, to undertake the work. But it has so happened that while writing this book I have been obliged to bow my head with sorrowing anguish beside his coffin. I began the practice of the law September 3, 1840, being between twenty-one and twenty-two years of age, illy prepared, I admit. I was not obliged, before entering the courts, to pass through the novitiate that delays most young men. My teacher, Win. Smith, Esq., had some cases in court which he placed in my charge, he never afterwards himself trying a case in court, to my knowledge, and this brought me early before courts and juries. During my studies I became enamored with the rules of pleading, and especially with the rules of