Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-01-05

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his servitude, with the same guilty
hand. to engrave upon the tomb of
the departed and illustrious dead the
lines which are intended to indicate to
the inquiring living their many vir-
tues aad exhaIted worth. And so,
also, with all the other departments
that are carried 0 d in this institution:
there might be similar illustrations
made in reference to tailors, shoema-
kers, hatters, blacksmiths, wagon ma
kers, &c Sc
The State, by the establishment Of
this Institution, and~ the passage of
laws to sustain it, gathers from every
county in the State all the incorrigi-
Bile offenders who are known to the
law, and after collecting them within
the walls of the penitentiary, EN-
barks in all the bran ches Of me-
chanism, and openly enters the field
of competition with tn e mechanics
Of the country. The mechanics out
side Of the penitentiary are required,
by all the obligations of good citi-
zens, in peace as well as in war, to
submit to taxation to sustain the
government III der which they live,
and at the Same time compete with
the State in their own branches Of
business. This policy of the State,
in carrying on the branches of me-
chanism, and the employment Of all
the felons of the country at them,
has a direct tendd ncy to degrade the
mechanics of the country as a body.
Felon and mechanic; crime and me-
chanism, from their close association,
become corresponding terms in the
public mind. The felons, after hav-
ing served out their time, are turned
loose upon the co untry, to mix with
the mechanics as best they may, and
percaance to become inmates OF their
families, and companions in. their
shops. Is it right that this descrip-
ton Of our population should be
thrown upon, and associated with the
honest and industr icus mechanics of
the State, either in person or pro-
fession? There is an instructive re-
pugnanco in the bosom of all honor
able men, and it is reduced to prac-
tice by nearly all those who have
charge of our cametries, by excluding
the felon from being associated with
US ven in the grave. If it is de-
grading to be associated with felon
after we are dead, it must be much
more degrading TO be associated with
him while we are living.
In conclusion, upon this subject,
| must be permitted to mike one
earndSt appeal, and tn 1T is, for the
to SO direct the future
management Of the affairs of the
penitentiary, by their legislation, as
to protect this large and respectable
portion Of our fellow citizens from
this degrading association a nd cpm-
petition, by excluding all the branch /
Is of mechanism from the peni ten
Liary.
JUDICIARY.
The true foundation Of our u di-
,iary is to be found in the Bill of
Rights, which was adopted by the
sovereign people in Me year 1896,
md was, in the year 1884, re-affirm-
ID. In the 18th section, they have
declared in the most emphatic man
Ter, chat all courts shall be open,
md every man for an injury done
lim, in his lands. goods, person or
equation, shall have remedy by due
course Of law, and right and Justice
administered without sale, denial or
lelay - this is laid down as the ba-
is, as the foundation of our whole
ystem of jurisprudence; and it is
on the legislature in the /
rganization Of our courts to con- ,
orm them TO the principles herein
I'D down To a correct understands i
lg of the kind of couf is to be es-
lblished, we should first determine
hat is meant by the terms ''right i
nd Justice as used in the bill of
ghts. The most approved authors h
efne the term right; CONFORMITY /
human laws, or to other human b
of truth, propriety or jus b
ce-" "Justice- the constant and II
disposition to render every p
AN his DUE" &c. In this connec- c
on We might consider the meaning a
: eqmty also. In an enlarged and o
gsl view; Equity, in its true and c
enuine meaning, is the soul and Il
,irit of the law Right, Justice c,
I'd equity, according to omrn non is
nse, and the best authorities, mean t,
e same thing. When it comes to al
tabliShinD \ court mr. tribunal or u,