Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-10-20

IL We ask the attention of our readers to the
extract which follows 1t is taken from an article
in the October number of the Democratic Review,
under the head of The Abuses of Law Courts,
subject which should beyond any and all others, oc-
cupy the attention of the people of Wisconsin, who
are about establishing for themselves fundamental
law, and shaping the institutions by which they are
TO be governed. The writer estimates that two
hundred millions of dollars are annually paid as
tribute to the false system of laws which prevails
Is it any wonder that labor does not meet with ade
quate reward; that poverty suffering, vice and mis-
cry prevail in our midst! Two hundred millions
TO this source, and much more for protection
enough aside from all other causes, to keep labor
ground to the earth-for from the productive indus
try of the country every cent of this vast sum de-
rived If this were necessary there would of course
be no ground Tor complaint. But is it necessary {?
Every intelligent man of Racine county, acquainted
with her internal affairs, estimate for himself the
amount which Racine pays. OF course, we neither
pretend nor contend, that these burdens can be en-
tirely removed. We must have Courts. But we
transact is unnecessarily committed to them, and
that three-ourhs of the expense might be avoided,
and kept i'll the pockets of the people. The time is
not far distant when these questions will assume
distinct and tangible shape. We ask, them the cit
liens of Racine to think of the matter. We ask
them to cast their eye across the fair face of the
county, TO take into account the army of men now
worse than useessly empoyed-engaged in consul
ming, and producing nothing-and then again, the
immense amount of money required to sustain them,
with the incidental expenses belonging to the sys-
tenn on which they live, and after this to question
themselves as to the necessity of it. If the produ-
GERS of the country design to rest contenedly orev-
er under this system which drains their products
from them dollar by dollar, mote it be but in
view OF the enormity of the tax they compelled
to pay the necessity of it is certainly subject
thy OF earnest Investigation and it is TO investiga-
ton wish to draw their attention:
"Coud the expense of such an establishment be
estimated correctly, it would probably be found to
amount TO two hundred millions of dollars annually
in the United states, amount equivalent to about
eight times the enue Of the general government,
United States the advantages of thorough academi.
cal education This array offgures is not urged as
meritorious argumentin the premises but is stated
merely the result of system which is both
theoretically and practically antagonistic TO the
vital interests ofthe American people. Other abuses
have grown out of this system, which it is most
desirable TO correct; one OF which is the unbrded
defamation of men of all ranks which is beginning
to be allowed by the courts and practised by the
hired sophisticators of the law. The sanctuary of
private character should ever be held sacred by the
government as well as by private individuals No
offence will sooner provoke the fell resentment of
mankind than this and we hazard but little in pre-
dieting, that the proud spirit of our people will not
long brook the presumptuous incidence which,
under cover of the laws, and for the accomplishment
of sinister views unscrupuously assails the unbIem-
shed regulations in the community which it has
cost years OF integrity and virtue 10 establish And
ii is consideration not less humiliating TO the in
jurcd, that he is traduced by who is himselfin-
capable of approaching that pride of which
he would fam destroy, and who is actuated only by
the grovellng selfishnes of his own venal ambition