The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-03-17
III: DAILY DISPATCH
4 Rich LEGISLATIVE PAPEh.
va. NERRImANs REPORT.

~R. NERRINAf NsfohA'
a. Southern friends (says the National In
..,,;r.ncerj seem to bs aware ofthe TACT that az
-, sometimes be accomplished IN more
x.vs than the direct one. as Is 'iius"a'eo W
the instance we now publish. in tne Leg's'a
T.xas the proposition TO which ths ioi'
lowing report refers was efiectuah, pa' q. ''s'
nv the laugh created by this 5ea eSp'''' anu
,,anv of our readers should, from IT'S eAtraS-
- b. led TO doubt its authenticity, we
,,.m that is extracted from the 427th
,.ra of,he Laws and journals OF the Legisla
ofTexas. of the last session.
~. rs,-iman made the following..report:
~, The President Of TIE Senate:
;5;cisyy committee 10 whom was re.
- me resolution requiring said committee
;nysstjra,e the exp :diency of repeating all
80 70 far the collection Of debts hereafter con.
.~.cted in this State, and TO report the result
of their investigation % the Senat., haze had
the san,e under consideration, and find the sub.
isct matter thereof very subtle, exceedingly
In,e,,uhysicai and Troublesome of solution.-
The bre. time given your committee, at this
late perioi of the session, to investigate the
question, amounts TO a prohibition OF demon
s,rntive conclusions, unless, as our chairman
the committee could save all his Thoughts at
dinner and dreams at night, upon the subject
and string them upon a stick, as boy strings
ca, fish, aud present them in u pile 10 the Sen.
ate.
Difficult as the task has been, your commi.
fee have endeavored TO dive beneath the SUBJ
marine depths, and soar above the heaven kiss.
ing heights Of the vast problem contained 10
the resolution. They have endeayored to ex-
49, ta(fy ofr H.
olution, and BY Artesan thought, TO strike the
fountain Of rejuveuescence emhowelled in the
primary strata on which the dubious syllogism
is based. II the lang ia ge Of the resolution had
been encountered by the amendment, the good
that would have resulted to the State from
law comprehendiug its provisions, would have
been apparent 10 uli. A heavy and oEerous
debt which has attached itself to individuals by
divers ways and means, connected with the
fall of cotton acd til; rise of putty, would have
been wiped out by al artistic act of q single
section, and the elevated heads of depressed
and down trcdden debtors would have turned
to ths capitol, and blessed the Trainer of the
resolution that called forth law to burst their
shackes. Alas tor human good, the amend.
ment cuts of this fruitful source of enquiry,
and sends yoIr committee afo4t on sea of
incertitude, win untried peris looming up in
the distance, without chart to distinguish the
channel from the rocks and quicksands. The
earlier, and perhaps the only law analogous to
the one asked for by the resolution, was emo
ted by Captain Moses, sort of military jus
lice of the peace ami taw-maker for people
called israelites, who had borrowed, and 9th.
er wise obtained, from a people called Egyp-
tiaus, u large amount of jewelry CD a credit;
and by virtue of this law, they never did paw
for il, as will be seen by severa! ca cases tried
where this law was given in evidence under the
II Al
Your committee found this law and the deci.
sions under it, in the first volume of Moses
Reports, printed few years prior to the re
voiutioa Of Texas, and to which they refer the
Senate for further particulars.
ia pressing the enquiry to ascertain the re-
suits of such law on the future DESTINY of
Texas, your committee have gore chronology
,caliy back to the time when Adam and Eve
forme co.partnership in the fruit trade, and
Gain and Abel we're only shirt tail boys run
mag at large ia the garden OF Eden. The few
remaining records OF the time show, conciu.
.sivcly, that no law then existed to enforce the
collection OF debts, AID the people were huge
iy happy. Before the battle of San Jacinto,
there existed Republic called Sparta, where
.she collection of debts could not be enforced by
the courts, although money was plenty but
difficult TO make small change, except at the
biacksmiih's. II, in the opinion of the Senate.
an evil exists in the frequent enforcement of
laws for the collection of debts, then, by adopt.
ing the SpartoR coin and standard of value for
the pigeon.roost currency now afoat and max
ing it legal tender, the same result will be
obtained that would follow the repeal of the
laws named in the resolution. Such are The
Investigations of your committee; which they
have instructed me to report back to the Sen.
ate for their consideration.
- FIJI. MERRIMAN,
One of the Com.