New-York tribune., 1841-04-29
VOL. L. NO. IL.
EXEMPTION OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE FROM


We adyered some days since the petitions before the
Legislature praying for the passage OF law to extend the
exemption Of household furniture from sale on execution
or distress for rent II will be by the Report of the
Judiciary Committee of The Senate that bill has been in
roduced in conformity, partially So with the PRAYER
of those petitions. The Report forth clearly and for
cby the considerations which have induced the Judiciary
Committee recommend ame!iora,ion of the existing
law. The bill accompanying this report we Informed
exepts household Furniture, exceeding hundred
and fifty dollars value from levy and sale under
ton in addition TO the property exempted. We regret
that the bill confined sales under execution, and that
the amount extended somewhat farther Every argu
meni eloqueny urged in the Report OF Mr. SIsLEY m
our judgment applies with equal torce 10 distress warrants
as to executions for debt There be why
the landlord whose tenement affords shelter for the poor
mans family, should have certain remedy tor the
collection OF his than the baker or the butcher VINO
has kept starvation from that poor mans wife and Children
The suggestion that the exemption IN case oil distress
warrants might tend throw obstacles the OF the
poorer classes procuring is judgement,
unounded We do believe that landlords more des-
tue OF human sympahes and charities than other classes
in community Besides, much the interest OF land
lords TO have their buildings occupied III the interest OF
the grocer The butcher, the Baker TO sell the provisions
in which he deals We have long looked upon the partial
legal favor OF landlords relics OF the feudat
SYSTEM at variance with the genius and spirit OF all our IN
srtions Aud while do not desire to sudden inno-
vaons introduced that might affect vested rights, we shall
gladly welcome every safe and moderate change that may
do away with all proscnptlve abuses.
We cannot permit ourselves believe that either branch
of the Legislature will hesitate in passing the law IN ques
tion-we hope with an amendment including distress war
rants
Society can lose nothing by eevang the condition OF the
abong classes Wealth itself becomes insecure-the BAL
ances the social fabric-the pillars upon which law Or
der and civilization Will be overhrown and crumole 10
ruin when the popuace become wretched and degraded
What produced the commissions that shook the Roman
Commonwealth It's during the civil and servie
wars prior julius Cesar Was it not that the Ion heel
the asocracy had crushed the spirit of The Roman peo-
ple and by the destruction OF every thing like tree labor
reduced the Roman the condition of apauper ted
from the public granares In vain that citizen was APP
poaed to- in the hour of DANGER defend his hearth and
household gods He had hearih-no household gods to
defend Who strewed flowers the grave OF Nero? We
are told was those who had been reduced by mercess
system of oppression condition low that even his de-
prayity could not afct the and who Justly looked upon
him as their avenger History fruitful in examples OF
the inevitable evils that result society from expressions
visited under color of unjust laws upon the The BEN
efits of civil liberty and social tranquility can only be Sc
cured by throwing the protecting ngs OF the law around
the RIGHTS and happiness of the lower classes. Il II to! a
that legislation is most required The rich and the power
ful can always find means to protect themselves Not SO
the moor The fluctuations of the times are constantly
bringing evils to their condition that demand the lnerPo
ton of the Legislature. And never more than now "hie
The enbarrassmeats of the Commercial Werd and he de-
engagements of the Currency call for special and
ary acts of forbearance toward the Banks and Moneyeo m
sutions of the country, shall not the Poor whose
arisinr from The immediate and IN
tense be heard when they plead for the small boon now
asked of the Legislature II Albany Evening Journal
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