The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-01-19
Qf your favorable cous
icksbufg and Jackson

<lg rapidly to completion. These
f19oi3 ie6 have prosecuted their several
VI good faith, and, considering the
7 ~ Of the times, have done much. The
alX Gulf and Port Gibson--the St. Fran
In and Woodyille, and the Mississippi
& hbama Rail Road Companies, have
Ut llted their several works with but lit
r. H@0r, and the various other Rail Road
mixing Companies. have not even
nced the Improvements they are re-
1aifSf y make. Banking seems to be their
|;e6ia eQh1ect and only care. Those COM
E66Rie6 6lfiving to construct the great inn
|{aToY 10e1fs they have undertaken, deserve
olksaIds No taxes should be imposed upon
ks6k5k ~ it deserves consideration, wheth-
{&r he credit Of the State should no! be
brought to their relief. One of the Rail
ElQaa Banks already has been wholly, and
IQl6efs partially relieved from making roads.
his policy is clearly wrong. Making pub
c improvements has always been the pre-
Hence for obtaining such charters, and in
t4ffIct justice, exemptions from the burthen
should not be toIented. The blending Of
| Banking and Internal improvements will, in
the end, Prove injurious 10 the Stockholders
and the State. have never favored the
scheme. and my best reflections have con-
firmed me in the opinion, that it should be
extended no farther. The State, with her
credit, could make al! the Rail Roads she
requires; the rate Of tolls could then be
kept essler the control of the Legislature,
and when the profits Of the work had IN
demnified the State for the cost of cons,ruc-
ff,1 k., 10 th
free use Of the people, or the profits paid in
to the State Treasury
The Law at present, is sealed book to
the great mass of the community; but few,
leven Of the judges and other public officers,
fare in possession of ALT statutes-com
tptete copies are NOT to be had-the unwrit-
ltenlaw still governs our judges in the adju-
4 dicafion of cases. The labor of msny years
tsTequiTed to understand what Laws gov
err US, and we have 10 employ counsel at
slgfent expense to Yind,cate our rights. The
Codes Of lstinian, of Frederick of Prus-
tsia,of Napoleon and OF Livingston, prove
THAT Law can be writ. u in Ineligible Ian
4 guage, reduced to system, and IN ode ca
a pable of being understood by all who read.
s In the year 1888, the legislature appoited
Gen. r. Rutilius Il. Pay to ssamend the
Il phraseoIogy u the existing statutes and to
prune, correct and arrange, alter and amend
the provisions thereof, So far as may be ne
5 Icessary to render the code harmonious in
litself, and consistent with the provisions oi
IL the Revised Constitution In pursuance
Hot that authority a new code was Prepared
: ind submitted 70 the Legislature, two years
.Iaxo. The arrangement OF the work is ad.
S mirable-technicai phrases are avoided
5 the language Is plain and Inteihgible, and
: lany one able To read could know the law
that guaranteesto hum his rights, his prop
eriy and his liberty, should The code be a
I dapted by the legislature. Strenuous OBJ
!. iections have been made to the proposed
. Revised Statutes, Dy many who have neve
i read them or studied theirprovsions. Some
i arc so welded 10 black letter books and tn,
a lunwritten or common law, as to be uawil
!. ling to believe that any Improvement cal
!. be made. We live in an age which contra
! diets all such assumptions. The Civil an
). Penal Codes of Louisiana have fally an
: Iswered the desired end, and to advance II
! the science of codfcation, we have only /
II follow those who have advanced before us
! Most oftFe provisions in Pray's Code, ar
10 copied from statutes in other States, whic
,e have already received a Judicial construe
" lion. No difficulty, therefore, could arts
in interpreting them--the eminent juris
who framed the code, now fills one of on
'e highest judicial stationsall doubtful ques
O. tons would soon be placed beyond dispute
a It has too long been the custom to look e
a. the law in the opinions of jarists. The l.
~ gislative will expressed in accordance wit
a. the constitution, is the only law recognize
u ina free government. The present is
N most suspicious time for the adoption Of a
!. entire new code of laws. Fully one ha
60 Of Dur population have recently emigrate
20 to the State, are unacquainted with the e.
isnng laws and would sooner become fan,i
Sc lar with.a new code, than the old, for col
&c lies ar tho code Of l622, are not 10 be ha,
Should you il your wisdom, decline actin
ge ton the three first Books df the Reused 81
ly utes, II viii be necessary to authorize IN
&, provide for The reprintIng ofthe code Of 16a
to in order that thoss> d6icels, now destitui
Of may be supplied. The best interests Of Il
arlState are ieopardlzed, in consequence
10 our public officers being unable to obt3l
ID complies setts of the existing ssatutes.-
b- There Is 10 security Tor life, lbertJ,
nd properly, deprived, rs tie people are, OF :
of cess "a he laws. 4 new criminal cod
onI ad.psed % the Penitentiary system, viii /
cd Iquirs your early attention Tho Ssa
Il / fieon = ii slapid proRss o. completSp
ia ana viii ~ ready for tln .fasep9ioa sc CO
llcku II ! ~ nontIs s. Il 1eveilsy Of i