The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-05

connecticut.
Governor Biss.ll Of Conn, delivered his m-sesgs
before the legislature the Sd inst The document
not very long proposes to the legislature mod
fcstion Of tho law the relation Of debtor and
creditor Governor says -" By the law of the last
session. the homestead OF the debtor to the value Of
three hundred dollars exempt from being taken on
warrant execution for any debt whatever The laws
have alfo made liberal exemption Of the personal
estate Of the debtor 1t also provided that person
shall be arrested held to bs detained i'm Imprisoned
UPON process mesne final founded upon contract
ly, expressed OF implied.
protect the honest and debtor have not
thrown shield around the dishonest and fraudulent
one? While have been liberal to ths debtor, 10 It
quite that have been just the creditor? And
has not the eject of legislation been to introduce
sxy Of principle in regard to the binding force of
gsgements? No will contend that poor or unfor-
tunse debtor should be imprisoned unable fulfil
his engagements But ought there be relief against
the fraudulent debtor who places his property beyond
Some mode by which he may be compelled to disclose
OATH and make Of tho property which he has
law on this subject Is oonfessedly very impe feet and
affords little or no security against the srossest inquity
In relation to the school fund the message says that
from 1.-The report Of the commissioner it appears that
the fund amounts to $20776ll 10 That during the
$la6 26 90. That the number OF children between the
ages Of feur and sixteen 81 5adivdend being 81 26
as OF the principal the fund.- has been paid into the
during the past y'ar and which has been rein
Tbs income Of the prison for tn. past year is slss5
80. The expenditures Sill s43 "a, leaving bal
sncs gained to the institution Of 81 sos "a
1t appears by the report OF the Quarter
master General the expenses Of the for
the past amount to ST. 665 o. OF this $500 IL
was paid for additional tents and Marques rendered
cessary by the law Of the last session the General As
sembiy Ii also appears that there have b.en returned
TO the State arsenal during the year. field pieces LOT
rih.s Ais muske. The suggesttops Of the Quarter
master General respecting the condition these arms
IND the expediency Of cleaning repairing and dsng
them ut for service, VIII require your attention
nj th0 Gam mill h. AID
bsfore you IL appears that the number Of the militia,
embraced in the uniformed companies which organ
military duty In conformity to Its provisions is 1865.
rSs "h0i' number reported to the Hdutant a'n.ra
The Judicial expenses of the year we're $50 7si &c.
being 2,o2O o5 more than in the preceding year.
la relation to the subject of slavery the message holds
Now it is undoubtedly true thst tho constitutional
rights OF the holding States in respect to this mat
clearly bound BY our federal not to attempt
change in the adjusted relations Of society, in those
Ssatos where slavery already established, under the
constitution But the resolutions 10 question take
higher ground. They assume the principle. not that
Congress ought but that they inhb,t an in
against which tue christian world sending up one unit
ted voice. In any State he eater to be admitted
Uaiop; and State recently admitted, and in
not little peculiar, is threatening resistance to ev>ry
law Of Congress which does not cola eide with te en-
ghtened views Of freedom Ths principle
advanced In these resolutions not for the t1e
serted Upon the admission Of Missouri Union in
1890 the Commonwealth of Virginia put forth decara-
ton denying tho Legitimate right of Congress to prohibit
slsvery "a condition Of adm ting State into the
Union or to impose sny other restriction necessary
to guarantee to such State republican Of
mont. Missouri admitted der what IL term, d the
Missouri Compromise the admission being sccompa-
MED by solemn declaration that with the ception
OF the State then to be aimit'sd slavery should forever
remain interdoted in all the territory OF the United
Rates north Of thrtysx degrees and thirty minutes Of
north latitude Assering principle. the validity Of
which then denied by the State Of Virginia. and IL
now denied by the states of Texas and Alabama. This
Is not the time the occasion for entering upon
extended discussion Of this subject Indeed, sueh
course would be hardly deoorous the General Ass'm
bly, at the last session, by vote nearly, IL not quite
unanimous passed a resolution declaring that il any
territory should hereafter be acquired by the United
States annexed thereto Whatever such act msy be,
should contain unslterahlc fundamental article
except Nc punish me mt for crime sba DO forever ex
ciudsd from the territory acquired or annexed see
evidence and shall be slow to bseve that the opiu-
ions Of the ctx Of this State have undergone
change on this subject IL IL one Of momentous iater
est to the States in the Union and derives at this
juuoure, additional Importance from the fact that by
the treaty aid to have been entered into with Mexioo
and ratified by the Senate large portions Of Mexican
rO,y ar: o's,d 20 the ss "o 80 the south
that this entire territory shall b. terri
tory and that States created ont Of It, shall be slave
no ding States Texas IL now Stste and It Is In tho
power OF Congress hereafter 10 create four other States
out Of Texan territory: New Mexico and California
MON. There will then have been created seven nav
states, whose aggregate population does not exo.ed
three hundred Thousand returning fourteen Ssnsos
the Congress OF tbs United States giving hold
ing interest fearful prsponderance and bressine
down the checks aud balances of the constut on Aud
the es ST 'tes ar. now told that any inerfe
snort on 'h,r pert To avert such catastrophe one
deadly to ell their interests will be regarded ~ wan
ton sgg.sscp on the rights OF the south to be followed
by acts OF reclamation an civil convulsions The agits
ton o. this SUBJECT, and the evils It foIbodes TO the
Union, are among the bitter fun OF the Mexican war
war commenced In violation of tbs constituted pros
eoutea for obrcts which cannot be vlndatsd aud ter
mnating " indeed 10 be termiuated) In r. suits most
disastrous 70 The best interests Of our comm ooup