Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-11-14


l trusrlhat you will not take exception
to this manner Of addressing yoH;. and as
one Of you Constituents, permit me to
suggest for your consideration, in your
future Legislative capacities, the propriety
ofpassing law making liberal exemp
ton OF propertyfrom Execution or distress
for Rent. aFE
The future prosperity Of your State
depends much upon the wise action Of
your present Legislature. That you can
give immediate relief TO our present
financial embarrassments, no one can ex
pect; yet many acts can be passed which
have a tendancy and ultimately will afford
relief The public debt must be paid and
paid by Taxation. nha bitants are in such
cases very necessary. A resident land.
holder Is of more value than a non resi-
dent. Any act oflhe Legislature which
in its tendency will encourage and induce
immigration irtocour State, mast have a
salutary effect. So sbon~as an effiGran,
becomes the purchaser ola l8t ofgoSern-
ment land his land becomes taxable, and
as natural consequence, he will have
personal property also taxable. If our
entire State was al this time well peopled,
the State debt would be no great burihen
The aieof Illinois is right for agri
cultural pursuits; her commerce depends
upon her soil and the industry offhe far.
mer; therefore. the farming interest de.
mands most Of rhe legislative cGnsidera
lion. This being so, perhaps, no act of
the Legislature will prove more benificiaI
than liberal exemption Of property from
-Erecufio1s to tskeeffect at a certain future
day 80 as not to operate on present con
tracts and liabilities. We are told THAT in
order to constitute government, il is
Necessary TO have both person and proper
~, and that the capital ola nation is her
people, and the industry Other people her
wealth; that being SO the next inquiry
that naturally arises is, what relation does
person and industry stand to property. II
is easily to be seen that there viii be no
wealth without person, and no property
without person. The conclusion then is
thai property follows person and is entirely
dependant upon personand INDUSTRY; then
Person and industry should he the first
objects of legislaiion. m baa 1sat 30
I AT this time oppression in the govern
rnents OF the Old World, is driving their
caPi,al f;he people. ] to the United States
Fhe Older States Of this Union are more
or less ruled by land hoiders-shd iisOhied
Interests, their capital in population teiRe
already great their Legislatures are leg.
-isIatiDg more for the benefit of property
than for person. The Older States have
not so great an object to legislate for. the
benefit Of person for they are already well
peoPled; yet New York and n1aay Of the
Eastern States have at this time more
than double thu amouut ofproperty eaempt
from Execution than Hlinois;l and have
abolished entirely the Barbarous practice
Of boiding to bail and imprisoninx for |
debt YetIllinois hugs that felict of I'm. |
civilizations What great inducement can |
i be to aman to become an irhabitans oil
our, State, TO know that 60 coon as be |
sits bic fOoiupon our soil that he isliable /
10 be thrown into prison by any. indiyid.
unl who aholnld daelara thae - a.. 4. i