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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
and chair in the office, calling it our office. Here, when he came to the city, he usually called upon his two friends, and met the clients whom he served while he was professor. Whether many or few suitors came to the young attorneys, they at least had rare enjoyment in their fellowships. Hillard, writing to Sumner from New York, July 4, 1836, recalls, in contrast with the law-offices of that city, our cool and pleasant office, and the quiet and cultivated friends who drop in. In Feb., 1835, Sumner defended successfully, in the Municipal Court, a party indicted for a libel. Failing on his law-points,— an alleged defect in the indictment and want of jurisdiction in the court,—which he strongly urged, he made a vigorous opening to the jury on the truth of the article complained of and the motives of its author, and discussed at length the law of libel. The following December he was counsel, as junior, with Theophilus Parsons, Mr. Parsons, an early friend of Sumner, was