The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-02-26
Debtors and Creditors.

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conservatory process, and under exc
| cution Of Ill Judgment and all rights
and claims In suit Mr.. McCay
Senator from New Orleans, has the
credit Of the bill, and it is no doubt
designed to accomplish wise and use.
ful ends in the administration Of what
Is denominated by consent "Justice.'
"A matter Of so much moment to the
good citizens Of Louisiana at large,
deserves consideration; and though
we be not entitled to the consideration
In a matter of this nature that an sat
torney" in fact, is yet there is a
kind Of intuitive PERCEPTION Of what
IL Justice, within us; and it is to give
expression to this feeling that Mr..
McCay's bil-or The title thereof, is
thrust upon us. What IS proposed to
be accomplished Has the passage
Of such an Act, n tendency to prevent
fraud, or does it not, rather open the
door wide and free to the heartless
debtor---into whose hands u poor
wretch may be given. not only body
but soalg We think 80, and refer Our
people to the reading Of the Act, with
its ten provisions all couched in the
same language and spirit. Poor
Louisiana say we, the hour approaches
when the already claked sugar bowl
of the Union will be broken in pieces.
All legislation wears but one feature
in its face, nowadays, and that is pc
cuniary benefit exclusive privileges
TO benefit the few at the expense of
the many. The statute books are
stained with thousand unjust laws
that seem framed expressly to fos-
ter and encourage litigation, and to
rend asuilder the sacred ties of rela-.
tionship and the bonds Of society
And the people are told by cunning
lawyers and law makers that the very
laws which grind them to the earth,
have been framed expressly to protect
tho weak against the strong ia.
There's that bare-f faced, naked ini-
putty the tacit mortgage system-then
there's the community property laws,
that enables the man when his credit
is dry, to have his wife to sue him, and
recover what he has stolen from other
parties. After this, we have forced
heirsbip, whereby the children can
come in after the parental tree Is de-
tanct, and get back property, sold in
good faith to other parties, who in
many instances are thus, turned out to
the charity Of the world. Whist BIAS
pheny to the intelligence Of the age is
we admit that the more
light shed abroad on the mind Of man,
the deeper and more Intense the NOR
al darkness 7 II 80, take away the
public school system and let the pub
lie mind revert to ignorance. for it
is bliss. II law makers are ambitious
to get something on the statutes in
their own name, let them look into the
book and expunge some of these ne
arious schemes of legalzed rascaIity,
instead of burdening the book with
others more iniquitous, than those al
ready written. III reference to this
act about seizure upon conservatory
process; a writer in the Delta who
'igns himself Creole, makes the follow
ing tenable supposition:
Suppose the case ola man whose
entire possessions are in suit, in the
nature Of a claim for these possessions
tut Of which he has been defrauded,
IS a relief against oppression and
wrong he applies to the courts Of his
country. His adversary, rich, per-
laps, upon his ill-gotten gains, has