New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-11-29
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
uoue.fead Exemption.

Several of the states have. within 'e" years
p..s~d laws exempfins homesiea'.. ,in-' -
IN quantity Of land. and n'i eHo....ns = ~
value from attacnm'n- levy ~ sale upon ,S"1',oI
So. - .h,uld 5e among tHr tttt4es % Ne" hainp
.h.rs Honest poverty u not crime y '1o-.a no.
t.,-,tsss8 ~ .uca. Much more should Be visited
:. .gca u,on toe poor maze wife AID Children IA
- co,.try every family should have q home us
ob.t IL need and wha, Ill have right 70. Inc eain
VS. created for msn. aud man for the earta Aud WITH
lt adopting the ultra theories Of ultra reiornleff We
rod mar every man woman and child upon the earth
Ia. al rdeessibe night 70 place 10 i've when tney
nav cal their own and from which no human power
has right % drive them The ioXes have holds 81
Their aud toe birds Of the Or have nests and man
has a night % q home. where be may lay his head.
We Suov rn.ny Will regard this 81 the hrst blush.
another sttsmpt 70 lens.ste Tor the poor debtor
kystus, the poor creditor We do not 80 look upon
We do NOT % 4. Upon debts contracted before
the passage OF the law % Sl not % sate For the col
lection u all existing Liabilities. the same remedies vii
exist a. present while de1ts acted hereafter
vii BE contracted 10 full view of the law aud Of ne re
upon which tne creditor must rely for hs pay
Bot We d. Dot believe the existence Of 10" eNeHp
inz homestsads from legal process vii "eaHsh lh'
trust worihness Of any honest msD-snd scarcely o.
dishonest mn. Tear from man hs nome ana 5oe
make him gagabOud Turn rs family upon inc Co.o
world. with no place tney ctn csi tneA V"" ~" u"
he manhood dies His Independence u gone ana
With IL his self respect and TOO often, NJ sense NJ
houor The bright hopes flf himself snd family which
have thus f.r cheered him forward 20 down 10 the
cloud Of difficulties that pres around him lie feels
hirnself a pauusr and ceases % whose bread b.
49, or from whose gransry be feeds MS wife and e
oDes
Otherwise. lar % il with hn who can eat even 'ne
Tread Of poverty upon his own hearth stone The
world may cold without a'ictIon and want may De
BE within he can look up 10 God and down on those
God has gwen him aud b. superior b al hs an ctons
lie 3. man and his own man. His wife an1 children
are his under God and they have home, from which
no rnerciless creditor may drive them. He has some
thing b live Tor and labor for Respect % himself and
love 10 hls family ak protect him from ohonof ana
20 M y f4fr1ul who trusts MIN His
ambition makes hm redOubie his exertiOns and be a.
cofnpshes TESTS which under other crcum'tance., De-
would have deemed impossible.
H0rnesteads Tor s snd thOse insliensbe by any pr
not entirely voluntary. would. ia our belief prov
more efficient psuacea for al the evils incident U the
present organization u society, than al the colleges
peniten,iaaes hospitals aud pubic charities mat Tue
world ever has seen ever VIII see Sucn deslde o.
stum cannot however be Of speedy realization y 10
shall ever be The present zston OF society for
bids Too many aud ishty interests oppose. Land
monopoly. money monopoly wealth, caste, al are nos
Tile 10 = change that would abolish them all, and. IN
their place establish equality OF rights. snd the rgnt Of
equal possessions Men educated 20 estimate them
selves not according the al Jaorn rule Of their ac
tusl virtues and requirements but according to the
false pro rata rule Of comparisons Possessions sho
bOnofs valued much for what they are 40 Tor
whs, they shor They sought because they are
1Oid but because they shfne
The mort we can Do, present therefore, = 20 81
vance la the right direction TO remedy as f-r 80 msy
h. svils thar 1, In our resch aud whose cure will not
vioenty disturb tbs present artificial state OF society
One step sod very obvious one In this direction 10
exempt the poor mans home from legal process To
make II his absolutely his wife and children re
BIZ. Por thi. end we believe a bill introduced By ~
Fowler whose provisions We have not examined, %
now before tbs Legissture postponed from last 81
sion We hope that Dill or something beter. will psss
the present The spirit Of the demands it,
the bes, interests OF the demand a. and the
relations Of debtor and creditor demand L.
Independent o., H. Democrat