The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-03-27

spoken with good intentions be no IS sa inc IN
SAD that more unmxed quantity OF claptrap or dema
gogus has rarely been printed the EXPENSE of the
people sets out with saying that until The hill was
ordered to third reading, was heard
against it. Now this may be entirely true but dsnv
Senator srongs inference in toto. For had the peone
Of this city, and especially of the country elisyed
srances would have poured in against iii and as conGr
matory of this need only be said regards landlords,
bill h aa M as @ q. WHEN
reference different state of things. The report
there should have been complaints against
that for long time previous to its passage. had been
difficult and in many instances impossible, to collect
debts which, when contracted had been supposed by the
creditor to be perfectly available and good" This extract
made for the benefit who may happen to under
staad it; not of the number. The report goes
to say "that is the duty of wise Legislators to make
laws for the whole community, and not for portion of
a principle SO important should have been entirely
lost in the practical operation Of the law in question For
will assume that an Overwhelming majority Of the PEG.
OF making contracts to buy, SELL &c. based on that sys
tens and of Courts and laws to determine the obligation;
ana when necessary to enforce the fulment Of those
contracts Now if this be an assumption founded in
truth, where was the wisdom of our wise legis.
ing the obligation of existing conracts;--so much
at war with the rights OF the masses, and only i'm.
reny ayerse to credits in general entirely in favor of
those which leave the day of payment blank, to the
empton law imparedthe obligation Of existing contracts
and hence clearly unconstitutional The Honorable
W..
that if be So the late decision of the supreme Court OF
the United States in the of the State Of
Illinois is in no sense nelligble The report well
as all the arguments serectyped for the purpose
their stand upon what Called mscaed the rights Of
the poor now sir regard such reports and arguments
wholesale sanders the best and standard Of
rails and virtue to be found amongst the actual Of
all countries and is true of this Of any other
try Examine into the habits and mode OF living Of what
Senator Strong would call the laborlng and tell
us what proportion Of them require the aid of exemption
laws to settle with their credorn Tell us how far it
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some men may own $3.50 worth Of property, and owe
in fact the poor and are so in degree by pay.
ing their way honestly some Of whom owned and
may never own SOC worth are prohibited by the
wages which be due for their weeks sweat and labor
by persons living upon and rotng on the honest ndus
tion-they are to be met at every corner they
plenty as wise legislators And let tell Senator Strong
that blunt the actual poor may be- their percep
tons of the right and the wrong too keen and pene
tratng for the himsy which dotted here and
Dutch Irishman you please who is oilng for liv
ing and whose stock in trade, whether in value ten
landlords warrant execution trusts man
who lives in fine house. and has fine furni.ure SIS
poor apology in his mind when he finds that ihe law
eords MN no remedy to be told even by an honorable
potism Of the laws the children Of Door and unortunats
parents are kept at home by those little attractions which
an Industrious mother by the aid Of humane and ovisin
laws is enabled to throw round t. Beset temptations
and precocous crime thus avoided and the rising
spring. instead of becoming vagrants paupers and Offend
How law invested with many holy attributes should
on the other hand contribute nicely do men out Of
their Just Dues is refinement of reason which the poor
laooring man is utter stranger In Of the petit
tons presented for the repeal of the exemption law
by deprivng them Of credita statement let me saw that
now receiving daily aud hourly confirmation, by the
Wn,cs good people ind IN hiring
in its practical operation Che Senaorss theory the
trary it wasa serious damage to those who paid and
sol ~ Tn lesf fkn ri
"that credit based upon security, that is eventually
and surely to work destruction to the debtor scarcely
be considered benefit to Them. Now would ask the
honorable Senator in all candour and fairness if he be-
lieved when he penned that part of the report that
actual operation of such credit l would 20
further and ask him if he could credible wit
ness Who IN the Of honest tenants other debtors
ever knew ofsuch made OF the law stood before
The passage of the Exemption Law to operate the
disadvantage OF two in hundred II he name such
witness let us have his name we'll something the
opportunities he had OF knowing the operation the law
Instead OF invoking SO irreverenty the name of the
mana name so dear 10 demagogues the honorable Sena
tor might have come right up to the mark and told the se
nsas that there In this s s i've
we'll brA how they lived we'll he could not we'll says
could, and paid il they could help it, that in fact
while the masses engaged from to sun, pro-
curing an honest living he could say but those other
persons got their living by practising the STILL
that those persons in their domestic relations be
protected from 'he despotsm Of the law, that those lit
tie attractions" which all powerful in preventing the
rising offspring from becoming Migrants must be
preserved from sacrilesieus touch of the law though
should happen tina. in truth fact those same
attractions" are the righ,ul property of honest
and decidedly poorer citizens II the Hon. Senator had
other virtue, about it, in sober earnssness are we
to be told from the very halls of leg sation-fom
CHEST temple ustcethat the cause OF sound morals
Of honesty, and Of virtue in her lovees FORM
that the common laborer-the laborng mechanic-tha
serving men and wOmen-the thousands of respectable
serving girls Of this State shall be prevented
by legislative enactments, from collecting their
hard earnings from their neighbor living in a
Gnflv furpf ehaIa o,.I "a
whilst they ploushing and narrowing day and daily
to make both ends meet in honesty and ALL iorsooth as
the report says, because of the waiting and benign
tendency which it, ohe exemption law has upon the
generous feelings and neral affections Of large
cy to the poor laboring man. however honest in its
inception usually ends mercy to the knsve and de-
signing and ou injustice to the actual poor man. whose
cause and the of the most rigid justice go hand in
hand together In conclusion, have too msny exhi-
billions Of sickly scnsiby or the "poor laboripg man"
ofcourse) in our Legislative halls sensbility that in
too many Of our States has gone far in sinking in dis
grace Why should any man. be he poor rich be pre-
which he may have on his neishbor 4 Why should my
stock o. groceries, or dry goods from which make
of the law, whilst my claims for part Of those goods
sold TO my ncghbor may be resisted with impuny, be-
cause his property instead Of being in dry goods. for
certain reasons in cabinet Can be possible that
course of Legislation which practically puts knavery at
premium instead Of discount be called for by the
truly poor man II Cannot be- The good book, which
furnishes the only nsllibe Of right and wrong
-Whlch dcnounccs, 1ndlsputaplc aulhorty OPP
preston of the poor demands by the sanction Of that
same authority that neither the man because of his
poverty the rich because OF his riches shall be
exempted from that which Justice demands This Is in
substance the language OF Him whose ustic mmuta-
BILE, while his mercy endure.h forever. HOWARD.
90 THE BEAUTY OF TRUTH AND THE BEAU
ty OF the Complexion both cardinal features in our
existence. DR.. Gouraud remedies the defects OF nature
with his incompatible preparations. His Poudre subtitle
uproots the snperfno air and his Eau dc Butte gives
clearness and beauty to the complexion and skin. He il
IN Unrf br If oil nG.
dence. But IL takes Dr. Sherman to cure our coughs
colds, worms, seasckness headache pslptstion rheu.
m,tism weak back &C. Whoever af cted should 10 at
once to Dr. shcman LOG Nassau street. and get some of
genuine Lozenges and be speedily cured instead Of
Wasting heir money on the many worthless limitations
and worthless nosums that attempted to be passed
off upon the uawary.