Consider the straits of a young man who must make his way and get a place in the world! Is there anything more desperate at times?
What was the law business in this community, divided, as it was, by eleven lawyers, shared in by visiting lawyers?
Douglas had to live.

Youth is forced to push ahead or be crushed.

I know he has been accused of manipulation in having the law passed by which he could be appointed to the office and supplant a rival.

Well, if he had not had the gifts and the energies to do such things, how could he have served the country and maintained himself?
The next February before he was twenty-two, he was state's attorney for the district.

No wonder that lesser men railed at him.