Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-01-05

vacant BY repeal of these laws. our
! committee hardly know how to answer ar
gumenis such as these. The idea that the
morals of scciely and dependent upon these
laws, 0rany other laws and that their re-
! peal Will disOrEaniZe and subyert society, IS
rather peculiar The present organization
oil socIo.y Is not The result of laws, but the
cause 81 .!em ana being cause instead OF
! an effect, II is hardly presumable that re-
! moving his effect is 20 destroy the cause.
| Society depends for It's character entirely
! upon the intellectual and moral Development
! Of the H!umJcrs Composing ii ana ii the re-
! peal of these laws is TO subvert society, ii
must be shown that their repeal is to affect
! the moral and Intellectual character cf the
| people. \ our committee see very
! different result i'll the repeal of these laws
a result which furnishes one Of the principal
arguments in its favor. Society, as is known
! has progressed from savage 10 It's present
comparatively civilized condition. As in
tellcct and morals are further expanded and
developed, society VIII assume new relations
and take higher grounds. Just in proper
ton then as by our Institutions we furnish
the means TO the mass of mankind to I'M
prove themselves intellectually ndmorally,
we furnish the certainty OF higher and better
organizations Of society,". At the present
time we have wealth IN the hands of those
who do not labor, and poverty on the side
Of these who 1s those who labor none,
are peyertilF The object of their creation,
and those who are compelled to physical la-
Dor, without relaxation, are equally peryert-
ing the objects Of their croat'o. On one
side we have repetition without labor, where.
IN all the objects to progress5ytn- are rcmov-
ed; on the other we have prostration from
excessive labor, whore the ability to pro.
grcss is removed. We propose to remove
the enormous tax upon the labor Of the
country SO that by securing to it the abiIi-
" TO progress, we insure progrcssion.-
We propose Al the same time, by taking
from the non-produccrs the means by which
they sGbsist IN idtencs, to PIT them in pre-
clscly the same position with the producers ::
70 enable them 10 live, we will compel
them 10 the field OF profitable production :;
secure to them the avalls oitheir labor, and
by The competence accumulated, enable all
20 avail themselves OF the means of moral
and intellectual culture, and consequent pro-
erosion and higher elevation of society,"
our committee might dI'atc at length on
ihs point, but Will content themselves by
presenting the matter briefly in a more prac.
tical shape. We have before alluded to the
fact, that exemptions SC far as they 90, are
a repeal Of these laws. Now we would ask
il society has suffered from the partial repeal
OF these laws. No mar argues or conccives
that the passage Of homestead exemption
IS 10 s"1vcrt society. On the contrary, ii
mas been ANY argued by the opponents Of
me principles we seek that sHch exemption
WoUIa Dehtht ana elevate society; and vet
lhe passage OF NE act, VIII place one half
or TWO lhltas OF lhe entire property Of the
STATE nryohu me collection laws. Who is
IL NaI IS 10 s"iltr from repeal Of these
laws The business man makes no com
plant. He evidently does not care, but all
ms SymPatAes are Tor the poor Iahorcr, the
farmer, ana tae producer, generally, who is
~ Such acl' 10 De deprived 81 credit and be
consequently unable to 1--we. Your commit
tee might here with property al,ude to the
singular state 0! things, which comp Is those
VINO produce all tAc wealth OF jhe country,
10 ASK credit OF those who produce none Ct
II, but they wish to call attention to another
fact. Is there ease on record where an
exemption was ever made, that tic poor la
heIer whose property was exempt, asked
that It might be again sub cctrd 10 the shcr-
III hammer, mat hty' The poor Iahcrcr,
! mght DC enabled TO get credit and have
lhclr Fights better protected.
" hen tie imprisonment for debt was