Southern telegraph., 1837-04-18

lie insists hihs a'op iaw sahams,
tfrif IS ns.biag mofo the Haausr 81 De- Z
leadns the collection ufdlbs isnNateli ma. I
ioral--buiof ibis I shallsly more presently
Is ofmafal and beneficial .ondencyl What
iho stalking from the mouth oflabor the bread
IA has earuei,n moral aid benevolent
operation! The infractioa Of individual
right and re'arding the course Of public
Justice, a moral proceeding! The payment
ofdebis BY statute laws, aud the setting ho-
nest aud perhaps needy creditors Al def
ance, policy Of good moral tendency! Yet
such would seem to be the argument Of
aPUBLIc GooD.n He talks Of oppression,
as if the collection Of debts wasa species Of
tynnnyl And on this subject, his pen
glides smoothly into by-gone ages and the
history Of the Republics Of other days, for
examples to hear out his positions, lie
says it was oppression that produced a.eir
overthrow. True: but what constituted
that appression2 Was il the operation Of
equal and permanent laws, securing indi-
yidual rights and Ieqairing an adherence to
justice? Was the collection of debts fairly
due, the kind of oppression which sent
Greece and Rome to unhonorod gravesG
Was the nursing mother ofpoots, and states
men, and orators, in the days of her proud
est destiny, the preceptress of "PuBLIc
Coon" in his relief law thoaries9 AT that
period, when she scorned dishoaor and
frowned upon injustice, were not the vest.
cd rights of the citizen held sacred as The
Acanthus leaf Of her own Corinthian Cap.
itolG And now that her temples have fall
len and her trophies lie In ruins, her wasted
end degenerate sons who have forgotten
Marathon, and Thermopyle, and the hun.
drcd other iells Of their fathers glory, have
yet enough Of the blood Of heroes coursing
through their veins, to repudate such vio-
lations of honor, and HghI, and justice.
Rome, too, in the days other wolfnursed
greatness, when her bannered eagles were
borne in triumph over half the world, left
no sach record of her degradation. II was
when her glory had departed and the sun
other liberties had gone. down, that fraud
and public plumber were toleratcd-.hat
The mercenary few riotcd upon spoils wrung
from the wants and the woes of the many.
"Public Good" thinks the want of a re-
Ilet law and the sacrifices Of property which
he snppnses will take place without it, will
be productive Of mobs and public disorder
If he takes the lamp Of experience as the
only safe one BY which to guide his f,ot-
steps, let him look at the history of Ken
tucky dlring the excitement attendant up
on her relief law system, and he will find
the fierce disorders which marked that Pc
riol, were produced, not by tho sacrifice Of
butby the spirit Ofpartizan Phrcn-
zy which conflict between the Legisla-
tnre and the Judiciary cnkindled. Does he
wish to IL 5ht the same torch here, Which
burned with such frightuI and omia rus
glare in the hands Of the ardent and
impetuous soas Of "the dark and bloody
ground''?
But ''Pusrc Coop" will, perhaps, con
tend that he advocates no "stop laws" Or
''rcicf laws,n but simply an extension OF
the time given by the bond for the delivery
Of property taken in execution, commonly
called the "forhcomng boad.'' This is
the way il which every kind Of legislative
"reloG" or legislative Interference is ef-
fectcd. Names are nothing: if the relief
which he proposes has atendcncy to impair
the obligation Of CONTRACTS, or prevent the
administration of justice without sale, de-
NAL or delays" 1t is immlterial what form
or hume may be given to it.
But the gentleman assumes that the pre-
sent bonding or rep'eyying system is con-
and valid, and with an air Of tri-
lmph, asks the difference in principle be-
ween delay Of twelve months, and ono
# twenty-foar lie shoald rccollect that
he present rcplcvying system has been on
, acqniescel IN, and thit its Constitutional /
ty has NOT been tested. lfhe is in favor of $
lelays, he is treading on dangerous ground
when he calls public attention to these
forthcoming bonds"
But, admitting this bonding system, as it 3
low exists, to be a constitutional and valid
me, how and by whit means can it bo ex-
ended9 Doeshe not know that by express /
NV as well as by the whole analogy Of jn- 5