Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-06-18
SAnl SnoLrIELD, Clerk.

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SAnL. SKoLrIELD, Clerk.
lHE LAWS OF Atty AsD IMsOR aLITIEs
OF LAw.-A writer in the Natchez Free Ira
der, whom some might consider Utoplan in
his views, charges all the migery and ~viiiainy
Of the tlitss to imperfect or bad legislation.
lie calls for reformation !; and the first thing
to be done, he says, is TO repeal al MDs COM
peaing men to pay their debts under contracts
made after the passage of sach repeal bill"
BY this step, he would substitute moral to le-
gal obligation. Another benefit. and the most
certain, arising from this measure, would be
an entire explosion Of the credit System ex-
cept among weii-tried and old acouaihtancces
We don't object.
In another place the writersremanks
Il would like to see erased from ont sta
tute books, the Whok security doctrine. of eve
ry description, and substitute in its stead
penalties. | care not of what kind, they will
have a better effect. If a public officer be-
trays a trust reposed in him by the ceTnrnn-
nifty, it were better to hang him than to break
up and ruin the hopes and happiness of an
honest man and his family who was mot
guilty. 1t would be infinitely better to pun
ISL a man for his debts than to make securI-
fes pay them IN a general way the iniury+te
the community would be less. although
he might be honest !; ret if suffer
ing must be endured. it should be done by
those who 5aused it. Cur security system
and credit system, in their present form, are
among the errors We inherited from Great
Britain, and this ! consider the most prepi-
tIous time to get clear of them we ever had,
".Ganabsng" debfs are the only ones known
to our citizens as debts of homer, or debts
founded on ~atStract principles Of right and
wrong they are rot considered right in our
conventional code. and hence there is no law
to enforce them. What is the consequence.
There is scarce q man in the country WL.o
will not pay a bet, if ne ~looses, although he.
will refuse or n elect to pay his miiisi and
butch r for the bread and meat which has fed
bis family"
There's some philosophy here so.ne truth;
seme observation a stern integrity Of pur.
pose but none but tho most alb lolute despot
could execute a code foun1ed on these prin-
cipsss- We are too far go4e /; the devil has
set his mark upon us
The OLD Doap.1o6-Full retlrrs show
the Senate to stand s4 democratic to- II Feds;
and the House "a democrats 10 so Feds
giving a may3rifty on joint ballot of dc.
IN! char did yeu eonae from.
On. v,4ar 1id,sou come from, stranger.
qr.tekly tell.
IN ~acr did you cons from, vod laok 50
mighty Yellw
" came from Old Virginia, ricr the neorle
can't be .boughI
|, And we've. flayed EN- up a time called tbs
soSer second thought
AMI tSa~'s where | come from I"
LOG Cabin Mslodies.r
":are ron. fond of Hogg's Tails ?" said a
literary a~spirant fresh from the pernssl ei the
Ettrick Shepherd. to his dulcsna. avery."
quoth the fair interrogated Z" like them
! much better than the ears and feet" 'But."
continued the interchangeable adn.irer Of Par.
nassus, "have you reed Hoge's Tells -
mo, slr,' replied the matter Of fact damssl-
"Daddy's hogs are all white and black"
Married neopls gsnerally Ire longer
than, those VINO are unmarried" Yes, and
ttey live slows 81, toe. Some Of than live so
SLOW they, can Be hardly said to liva at all
". Y. Mercury.
Betsy @l yoa show .h-s gentleman ia
door.
u CacissGss Dolly Hssssge.- very
handsome paper. and a very good enc. too
IT Ex-Governor Dorr il called hv s,ra