Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-07-14
to think. And that you may do good
and reap rich reward, / will continue
to pray.
Your old friend,
JOSEPH GRESHAM.
MEssRs. NORRIS & KEITH.
Your old friend.
MEssRs. Norris & KEITH.
Correspondence of the "Kcowee Courier .

''0 lo"sI ohc 'hal meets WIN most abuse, Is
the 'Pctticoat Law" as it is sometimes
styled, the intention of which is tosecure
to the wife the enjoyment of her seperatc
property, subject that has engaged the
attention of the South Carolina Legisla.
ture But whatever may be the true
policy, inrcgard to the chattcls of the wife,
vestlng in the husband by the wanted
rights, of one thing there is no doubt, and
that is that the civil law system as it op-
crates here opens the door for fraud, de-
stroys the confidence of one man in anoth-
cr, embarrasses the commercial transac
tions of the community and has introdu-
ccd the cost system to a considerable cx-
tent, in country that has very little of
that nccdful article. And the law here.
to which there is perhaps as much odium
attached, as to that above mentioned, is
one which excerpts from levy and sale un-
der execution fifteen hundred dollars
worth of land, besides considerable
amount of other property. The tenden-
cy of this law, like the other, is to relieve
debtors from the payment of their lust
debts. They obtain credit upon the faith
OF the prosperity around them and when
payday comes, they complaisantly in
form the creditor that they have got
what the law allows them and thus under
this cloak of rascality, they get rid of dis
charging an obligation which was perhaps
contracted for the necessaries of life. Add
to these specimens of the wisdom of Mis-
sissippi Legislators, another, which
makes two years the shortest possible
time in which debt can be collected by
process of law, when the debtor chooses
to make denefce, even when he has no
plea that will sustain him, and Mississippi;
presents code than which no other could
offer more ample protection to rascally
debtors. The financial condition of the
country is truly deplorabe. The currcn-
cy is principallyspccie, the bank at Holly
Springs being the only one in the State.
And although there is considerable a.
mount of Mobile, New Orleans, and Ten
nessec money in circulation, yet it docs
not pay the high taxes which are impos-
ed on the people. Specie being required
for that purpose and often collected, ia
Ken to Jackson and then called up in the
public treasury. The treasury is at this
time ovcrfowing, and yet the country is
embarrasscd-somc say that the distress
ed condition of the country is owing to
the great drain of specie in payment of
taxes and its a fterwards being withdrawn
from circulation. It's certainly bad poll
cy to withdraw so much money from
circulation and let it remain idle. being
employed by the state, neither for bank
ing or other purposes or scattered again
among the people. If the money that is
paid Tor taxes is to be boxed up and re-
main barren, the taxes ought to be reduc-
co 10 the minimum point, consistent with
the expenditures of the government. The
"ite;V of this would be to leave n great
deal more money in the country for the
payment of debts and very ereatly re-
ileyo the good people. Owing to the en-
barrassment of the country in money
matters, the legal craft flourish here;
though but few of them undergo the
".viginti lucubrationis annorum" of nv
Lord Coke in as much as politics nun high
and the profession is made the STEPPING
stone to political promotion. The politi,
cal history Of this country is nothing bus
the history of conventions, caucuses. nom,
nations, wire-working, st,ump.speaehify-
ing and corruption, candidates for clerk.
sheriff, legislature, congress, &e.,n,,ist he
nominated by some caucus or Convention
OF more or less pretension to, DIGNITY.
AND even candidates for the Beach, When
honesty and ability arc most, wanted are
elected oftener with regard toIElieIr naliii.
cal tenet than their qualifications sforstha
dignIhed station, an instructiile gommsp.
ttary that upon the policy of sIin elective