Excerpt from James Cope: The Confessions of an United States District Attorney Republican one had offered better chances, I should undoubtedly have sailed in on it. Principles did not trouble me, but I was a very popular man all the same; called every man who had his vote by his Christian name at election times; stood innumerable drinks, and was known as Good Old Jimmy to every saloon-keeper in Lodo. I think it was at the age of fifteen that I finally determined to be President of the United States, and with that end in view became omco-boy to Lodo's leading firm of attorneys. This was not my first employ ment, mind you; for I had previously put in one year on the cars running between Lodo and San Francisco, and another as a telegraph clerk. All legal gentlemen, who are not judges, are attorneys-at-law in California - that is, barristers who do their own soliciting; and in due time I became one also not speedily and with ease, but after an almost incredible amount of hard work, and many sleepless nights. It was eight years before I attained this grade, and during the whole of them I was working like a black, not for the Attorneyship only, but for the Presidency as well. There is little doubt of the fact that, at the age of twenty-four, I knew more about International law than any man in the State of California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.