Eation, and strikes at a profession in which ia holies and ambition, and support of hiin •elf and family, are involved. The punishment ia severe, cruel, and unexampled. It subjects him to all the obligations of the Constitution •while it takes from him all its advantages. The original act of 1863 was not made appli cable to attorneys in the courts of the United .States. Three years wero suffered to elapse,