New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1842-01-13

u We are farther indebted 10 Hon Messfa F. GRAN
GER, G. g. FERRIS and J. j. ROOSEVELT Of this State and
T. KING Of Ga. for valuable Congressional Docu-
men,s
20 We present our First Page compfe-
hen.ive view of the prospective Apportennnent, TO
the several STATES OF Members Of Congress unoei
the New Census, a, every Ratio between eo'ooo
and 20 600; also. the relative Representation u
the three Grand divisions Of the United states at
all the Ratios likely to be adopted; to "h'ch IS
added history Of former apportionmehis' ana Oh
,}e )eg;sI.,io, in regard TO them, including Gen.
Wo.l;,g,on,. ye,o-an act deeply 10 be regretted
III. Whole vii! be found replete with interest at
mis- time. as the discussion Of the Apportionrnent
IN Congress is soon TO commence and VIII natu-
ally rive rise 10 excited and dubious struggle. for
ooIi,ical power We ardeAtly wish the Ratio
might be put at least az high $4,000, but we fear
ii .ill nol=be
In few COPE, OF this sheet ia Table /. the Popu'a
tion Of Mi.so.ti is nispril ted 33c3. 7G IN others,
'ta 102 while ought TO be e3 u2 IN all In attempt
email error, greater one was made
E For notices OF New Publications, y. S seamen,
News from China &c. beside the Apportionmen, Ia
Dles and History, see First Page.
l. For Poem from The Dial, Commerce of the
Lakes, &c. see Last Page.
ClrlzESs OF NEw-YoRK you are called to
semble at tie Merchants Exchange al o'clock
this day, to remon-trate aganst the Repeal Of the
Bankruyt Lar. We entreat you to let no
sideratons of business or personal convenience
prevent your attendance
FR1R.Ds or THE UNroRrUsArE do not desert
them nor! Their struggle for life or death Is at
ls crisis Three weeks will determine whether
One Hundred Thousand of your fellow citizens
mos, Of them as honest and worthy as yourselves,
but overwhelmed by unforeseen and irresistible
reyulsions in business-sha again stand forth
among you MES, and be permitted TO labor and
for their wives and children, or drag ont the
reminder Of their lives in hopeless depression and
niseryprsitless to their creditors useless to their
families, worthless to the community, and burthen
20 then. friends. Come up their help TODAY
ADVOCATES or JUSTICE can you wish that the
Country shall continue blotched and distgured by
Stay-Laws, Valuation Laws, Relief Laws, and
every variety of pernicous State contrivances to
shield the property Of Debtors from the pursuit of
their honest Creditors? How many houses have
South! Wcstern Debtors which a Bankrupt Law
would have ensured them? Why should not the
principle be established and UNIFORMLY enforced
that the Property of an Insolvcnt Debtor belongs
10 his Creditors but his snews and his daily earn
ings are first duo to the support of his family?
Assuredly this would be advantageous to the
Creditor as humane to the unfortunate Debtor.
FRIENDS OF NATIONAL PROSPERITY One hun
drcd thousand of your fellow citizens entreat of
YOU permission to work, and earn, and live Mis-
fortunes and imperfect laws have reduced them to
the condition of drones-of consumers without lib
erty to add essentially to the production OF the
Country. They ask permission to give up all they
have, and all that in the nature and course OF
things their creditors ever get, ard tuke hold
once more to plant, and build, aud buy, and pro-
duce for themselves their wives and children
Many OF them will pay all their just debts in time
if they are allowed immunity from legal prosecu-
ton but they never can iftLe Sheriff is to follow
after then, ea dig up the seed as fast as they plant
II. Bankrupt Law in operation viii! add 1wen-
" Millions to the National Wealth this year, and
Fifty Millions the next from the increased earn.
ings Of lnsoven,s Production, Trade, Prices, all
will feel the impulse. Why shall it not be given
WlIlcs OF NEw-YoRK! are you willing to sit
,smcy by, and see ali the fruits Of the great Vic
Tory of $40 dsstroyed7 Can you wish to see the
Good Cause dsgraced and tramplcd in the dust
Shall the rutiiunism of Benton and the cold-blooded
sbtlely of Wright overlurn the whole fabric of our
hopes and the fruit of our exertons Be sure tn
if the Bankrupt Law is repealed, the Distribution
Law will follow, whereby New-York will be rob-
bed forever of her righ,ful interest in the Public
Domain, and the embarrassed States be plunged
hopelcssly INTO the gulf of Insolvency and Repuai-
alton Patriots Philan,hropists Friends of HI
mani,y and of National Prosperity rally one aud
all to The Exchange at O'Clock this day
For the New York Tribune.
The Bankrupt Law.