Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-04-07

OF the benefits OF the adoption oil the
Constitution
1t simplfcs and purites the Executive Depart
mcnt, and forever emncipates US from Regencies,
central and local
It restricts the Legislative Department to the
general public law, takes from them all the tempta-
lions which have corrupted Legislative bodies in the
various States, and dscourages long sessions and
cessive legislation.
Il prcysnts the the usurpaion Of the Judicial de-
partment which have been in most of the States
power above the law itself
1t restores to the people who own it, all the po-
lcal patronage and power, usurped in other States
by the servants of the people.
1t disbands the office holding monopoly, and
guards against the unconstitutional power of poll
ticans
1t provides an admirable school system, and
noble school fund
1t provides liberal and polite rule of suffrage
which will fill up our State with laborious and
intelligent emigration.
1t secures every mans property against the ru-
mons membranes of State Debt.
1t gives a sound currency, and shuts out all the
corruption of the money power
1t will shed blessings on all alike, and make us,
as far as law can do it, truly rural peoplcliving
upon simple, free production.
1t is simple, safe economical and popular
Constitution.
THE EXEMPTION OF THE HOMESTEAD.
No measure Of the constitution is 50 much as
sailed as this and it does seem to us most excellent
one We do believe tie result of It's operation will
be in the very highest degree beneficial TO the whole
country. Most certainly one OF its effects will be
to keep the fec of the land in a great number OF
hands-to prevent any great land monopoiies-to
keep the wealth of the country more generally dis
tr;buted--and as a consequence make prosperous
and comfortable proportionably greater number OF
families In Europe, and particularly in England
the land is monopolzed by comparatively few
men The tenants of the soil are but little better
than slaves They endure almost every privation
which men can endure, and the products Of their
toll, instead of beneitng them in any-1yise, make
lords who own and rule the soil. Suppose in the
emly history of England, their legislators had pos
seysed sufficient wisdom to have enacted, that each
man who could acquire might retain free from OK
ecution a quantity Of land sufficient for his wants
does any man believe, that the great mass of the
people of England would be in the condition they
now are Would they not instead of being the serls
Of the lords of the soil he independent trcemen.
In our whole country, thus far, experience has
shown that the fee Of the land is gradually stealing
from the many to the few. We need not recount
the great variety of ways ~ which the land of the
contry,nds It's way into the hands oGthc capitalist
Every newspaper contains its mortgage sales, ;"
and its sheriff sales, tending to that end. What
must be the result! The soil must beloved upon
and cultivated. Men must do it or starve--and
under the condition of things as at present existing
they must do it, as the people of England do; the
tenants of the great capi talsts--zubect to their
will and 10 their grinding monopoly of the main
share of the products of labor. 1t is system
which gives the laborcr his mud howell and his
scanty meal of vegetables, and to the lord his pal
ace and his Injuries
Men of Wisconsin, do yea wish to be Freemen?
Do you wish to o,c,s the soil upon which you tread
subject to no mans will or dictation-reaping, en-
oying and possessing the fruits of your labor. If
you do, you will vote for this homestead exemption
Whom does il harm or or wrong?
1t does not affect debts already contracted, and
e.
and as all must be aware Of its existence after its
adoption 20 creditor can complaiE because none will
contract credits in view Of it. Can any man see or
tell wherein the exemption of this homestead will
operate otherwise than benclcially. True, there
are predictions, in any quantities a(loat as 10 the
monsrous evil it is to create but we ask men who
have lived upon the earth long enough TO have
watched the progress Of the many reforms which
have |cssed us, ifthese same predictions have not
attended upon every reform There was time
debtor Was not the reform which took from him
this right fought just this is and did not similar
predictions attend upon its success? And Were
these predictions in any wise realized? Was the
country or the people IN it ruined Was credible
stroyed! commerce paralyzed! Did produce rot
On the hands of producers? We do not think
any such result attended upon the reform. After
exemptng the body fthe debtor a step further
was taken in exemptions, and personal property to
small extent exempted. Was not this fought in
precisely the same way, and was the result other
than beneficial? The Jody of the debtor was ex-
empted with most favorable results; the exemption
was extended to personal property with like sue
cess wc propose now 10 extend 1t to the exemption
of home. If the other measures were good, is
not this fla man may with benefit to himself
and community be guaranteed his own person, and
an amount of personal property; may not he with
equal benefit and propriety be guaranteed home