Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1842-02-08


Extract From the National Intelligencar.
THE FIFTH WEEK OF THE SESSION.
The vote looking TO the repeal of
the Bankrupt Law has, we confess,
overcome us with surprise at lis sud-
denness,aud with apprehension for its
consequences. To this measure, in
connection with the Land Distribution
and Prescription Law, we had poin-
Ted with triumph as the Two great pill
lars Wing policy, of which third was
to be, and we have yet faint hope is
TO be, the restoration (as far as pfacti-
cable) of a sound currency. We could
not bring ourselves 10 believe, though
threatened in the Senate, that there
was any serious design in Congress to
repeal that benifcent sct, which has
called down upon the heads offs au-
thors mole ofthat incense the 'savor of
which ascends to Heaven than any
measure ever passed by Congress
We sympathze most deeply in the
anguish with which this indication in
the House Of Representatives will
wiring the breasts OF many thousands !
of the helpless women. and children,
who have londly looked TO the olsen
Ihralment of their natural projectors by
process which, upon all the consid-I
efauon that we have been able to be-
stow upon it, is to our mind no less.l
just and wise than il is humane and
provIdent. We sbudderat The thought
of the utter desolation which the con
summation of the proposed repeal
would bring upon hearlhs long wretch
ed and iorlOrn,hut upon which the be
nlgnant promise held out-by the Bank
rupt act hadat last shed reviving and
G55onsolluS beams of hope and Joy
we most earnestly hope that we may
DC DC spared the spectacle of such an af-
nIctIon' the depth and extent of which
may De pictured in the imagination,
but which no pen nor tongue could EVIL
er describe.
uo not oil course, pretend to
arralgn the votes of individual mem
Oers on this question of the proposed
repeal Of tire Bankrupt Law. They
ire acting under high responsibility, 1
md IN a conscientious spirit; some
doubtless under supposed instructions
rom their immediate conslituents.-1
I we could tpresume 10 address any
rgument to them, we should urge that
might have been expected, as more
OniOrirable 10 usage as well as 10 rea-
on, that a law, sanctioned in terms by
he Constitution, passed with the con- {
ent Of all branches ofthe Government, I
under circumstances which have since
,ssteFg0ne no change. ought 10 un-
ergo fair trial before it's doomed =
his privilege, which is allowed to. !
ne most abandoned malelactnrs, ought !
OF, surely, to be denied by Congress O
, its own offspring. Let us have the
erdict Ofpublic opinion upon itibefore i
is condemned. That opinion has] c
OF been ascertaned by any process to !,
g relied upon; and,a according to all =
lie information that has reached us, is !,
together more favorable than averse. +,
} the law. .Obdurals creditors there b
ay be, who, not content with OBTAIN ie
g all that men can, pay, -wouId vet p,
Did their miserable debtors in bon pI
lgc for life. Imprecations upon the "
Law may be hurled by such ~ ~
en-, but how feeble ought not to be - y,
cir denunciations against the force of +,
ason and the march ofinIellect which cl
inbound all the saws and sophisms tn,
ID dispel the darkness, of the barba- va
nm Of past ages, under which not on an
the debtor, but the debtors family. du
) wife and his children, were con- !S'
mned to servitude or penury for life. - -
atone for the misfortune OF debt -
lich il was impossible that he should SO
er be able to pay! May our legis- hoI
ors, when seriously mediIatiug fur ma
y legisl iIion on this subject, ever reF
ar in mind that It
rthy power doth then show nearest Cons up
ben Mercy seasons Justice! 70,
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