Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-01-07

ment. The form of this ,crit, and proceedings
thereupon, can be SO moulded and adapted by the
legislature Tor the use and practice of the Superior
SourtS OF law, as that aggrieved party could OBJ
tam reiei against judgment in the same Superior
Court OF law rendering that judgment as effecually
ana much more SOY as if he had preferred his
OIL OF injunction to the Superior Court of Chan
ce'y entertaining equity jurisdiction, that Su-
perior court OF law. All this can be done without
any constitutional impediment interposing itself in
the way. With these amendments 10 the .Circui,
Court system. almost all our business could be
oone al nome, by our own county officers, law ers
ana neighoois What burtbensome expense, loss
OF labor, and time, would be saved 10 the country
people! We should prefer amendment 10 abolition.
OF such system.
Let me be understood as indulsing no disinpenu-
Gus remark, and no querulons temper, when i say
strange fatality often Details US. Public ns,i,u-
uons are created svowedly for the use and accom-
'nodaton OF the people. Under the disguise of the
uDic interest, they often dissolv or strangely
"ouiheu, Tor The use and accommodation of the few
perhaps only the ncunbents of Office, and those
VINO live on the taxes and labor of the people. =
My sincerity will no, be questioned live by labor
=" 'he earth. am payer oftaxes. hope per-
form with fidelity all The duties of good citizen.
never had any individual use for court of Justice
except to record title to nv freehold
nat have we been told of the immortal Hen
ry! Considering his great talents no longer ne
cessary in the public affairs the splendid work OF
the revoluto" being complete, he retired 10 his
private avoca'ions. An urgent private call hasten
Gu nm Tor some title papers TO the Land Office and
win ms usual poeness in plain planters dress.
he importuned immediate despatch from the Regj.
ter while reclining in bis chair under the Operations
o. the curling tongs and powder Puff of his barber
W I'm cold indifference, not even offering Mr.
henry seat, the Register observed, he mus,
wait until the barber done. an. Henry wa.
siien-smiled, stood erect II had been CASUAL,
reported In The Lobby OF the House, tthe Assembly
being IN session. & tina; Patrick Henri was in the
REGISTERS Office" His odlcompario,s ,,nembers
oil the House, crowded down to the Land Office
numerous cordial, and joyous were the salutaiions
rendered to Nh. Henry. The poor Register Che
operations of his barber uni isie,) was seized bv
conservation covered with confusion and bushes
ne Jumped up, offered Mr.. Henry his chair. nut
al Ms cierks IN immed'ie requisition TO find or
copy the title papers. He was about to make a
tonins apologies; he was prevented by the maona-
nimity OF MIR. Henry, 90 whose countenance La.,
began to sparkle with the electric fire and whose
ne'iihnent lips were about TO open with the thun
der OF his eloquence" He checked bi,nself an,
eelnSiy observed to his encirclin. friend. tina,
pubic tribunals and Offices were established for The
use Oh me people, that the judges and officers were
Their servants, and bound pumctualiy To ,yai, n,
them at all reasonable times for desna.cb of h,,si
hess-that he little expected TO have seen in his
''me' any ofhcer eelecng forgetting this great
and sacred duty" He then politely explained In
the Register, the importance of despatch in his
case, the title papers being wanted in cause which
STOOD Tor trial excusng the Register, he smiling
~ observed to him, that he must have been mised
oy The bad example OF some higher officer in the
government. -
Inc Register was heard to say &c it fauqht
nan useful fesson." that no man ever afterwards
was detained al his office, one single moment long er
than he could avoid; and that he never ;n,ro,,ca,
another barber into the Land Office While we regre,
mat the genial influence of masnanimity could not
relieve poor barter from serious ca a. ropbe L.,
us timely avail ourselves of the useful lessons ~ hs
orawn from this interview between patriot of the
revolution, one of the penmen of our state bi:l oI
rights and constitution, and Register of the Land
o@e AGRICOLA