bigscoop
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A few weeks ago I asked a lawyer friend of mine to read the pamphlet and treat it as if it had been presented to him in legal testimony, and then I asked him to further treat that testimony with his own legal perspective in considering the pamphlet’s possible accuracy/truth. After doing this, the following is what he told me…..
“From a legal perspective the most important statement is made on the cover of the pamphlet, “Containing Authentic Statements” which simply implies, from a legal perspective, that “only some of the statements in the pamphlet are true”. He went on to explain that if the author had felt he had penned an entirely true account of the events he most likely would have used something like ‘a true story’ or ‘a true account’ in referencing the contents of the pamphlet. By using the reference “containing authentic statements” he would only be required to include a few true statements VS an entirely true account throughout pamphlet.”
As far as the story itself, this is what he had to say:
“The story certainly appears to contain several situations where a lot of possible legal formalities and requirements could have existed, and probably did if those particular accounts were true?”
“From a legal perspective the most important statement is made on the cover of the pamphlet, “Containing Authentic Statements” which simply implies, from a legal perspective, that “only some of the statements in the pamphlet are true”. He went on to explain that if the author had felt he had penned an entirely true account of the events he most likely would have used something like ‘a true story’ or ‘a true account’ in referencing the contents of the pamphlet. By using the reference “containing authentic statements” he would only be required to include a few true statements VS an entirely true account throughout pamphlet.”
As far as the story itself, this is what he had to say:
“The story certainly appears to contain several situations where a lot of possible legal formalities and requirements could have existed, and probably did if those particular accounts were true?”
As a PARA-LEGAL, I would have to say that JUBAL EARLY, CSA and attorney in Lynchburg, Va. post "Confederate War" (aka Civil War) MAY WELL have "impacted" the BEALE PAPERS... BUT! LEGAL LAWS had to be based on "Civil War" era "legal system" or "legal system" of 1819, etc. BUT! I am NOT aware of attorneys in that era, except for J. B. RISQUE, who WAS involved in the PRE-Beale story, and LATER moved to Lynchburg, Va. and bought LOTS of land in Campbell County, Bedford County, and Lynchburg, Va. area. HE was J. Beverly Ward's GRANDFATHER! 
