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December 27, 1809
Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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Petition to Georgia legislature seeks to ban lawyers as societal pests, unequipped for honest work and more destructive than Samson's jawbone, which slew thousands.
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Death to the Lawyers!
A petition has been presented to the legislature of Georgia, from which the following passages are extracted:
"We pray your honorable body to make such laws as to dispense with and totally obliterate the most useless pests that ever disgraced the human society, to wit, the lawyers, who have so successfully learnt the trade of living."
"We your petitioners, as republicans, believing in the equal rights of man, and also that the Deity in the creation did not contemplate lawyers—having made no distinction in the formation of man, but left the lawyers as adequate to the pursuit of honest labor as the best of mankind."
"It has been said that Samson slew his thousands with the jaw bone of an ass, but, in our opinion, the jaw bones of lawyers, (assisted by their tongues) have since devoured their millions to one slain by that of the ass."
A petition has been presented to the legislature of Georgia, from which the following passages are extracted:
"We pray your honorable body to make such laws as to dispense with and totally obliterate the most useless pests that ever disgraced the human society, to wit, the lawyers, who have so successfully learnt the trade of living."
"We your petitioners, as republicans, believing in the equal rights of man, and also that the Deity in the creation did not contemplate lawyers—having made no distinction in the formation of man, but left the lawyers as adequate to the pursuit of honest labor as the best of mankind."
"It has been said that Samson slew his thousands with the jaw bone of an ass, but, in our opinion, the jaw bones of lawyers, (assisted by their tongues) have since devoured their millions to one slain by that of the ass."
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Petition
Lawyers
Georgia Legislature
Anti Lawyer
Satirical Complaint
Where did it happen?
Georgia
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Georgia
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A petition to the Georgia legislature urges the creation of laws to eliminate lawyers, portraying them as useless pests who live off society, unequipped for honest labor, and more destructive than Samson's jawbone of an ass.