The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-10-15

Of the counties ofsthe State operates not
only to deny to parties decision of
their cases promptly. aud without de.
lay" but also to subject them to a heavy
and severe increase of the costs of liti.
cation The poor man is virtually de.
barred from hearing of his claims by
bis inability to defray the expenses of
their prosecution. | believe that seri-
Gus evil is experienced by our citizens
in this respect, which addresses itself to
the wisdom Of the Legislature for a
remedy. =
Much complaint has also been made
that our laws regulating attachment up
on mcsne process are injurious to the
interests Of bott debtor aud creditor.
and seriously crdmp the enterprise and
industry Of our people by im2airing that
feeling of confidence and security which
must characterize all healthy business
relations. In some Of tho United
States this evil has been avoided By tho
passage Of Insoivent Laws, in others by
allowing attachment on mesno process
only in cases Of manifest fraud, and in
others by presiding that an attachment
by one creditor shall, under certain r"r
ulations 10 for the benefit of all. be.
licve that the interests Cf our State are
seriously prejudiced by our present
law upon this subject ami that they de-
mand Of you careful consideration 1T
the evil and the various remedies which
nav suggest themselves to your minds
The strength and efficacy Of laws de-
Pend very much urou their simplicity
and stabili,y.-Free States are
moro frequently governed too muchrhan
too little aud thcy often times fall into
the mistake Of too hasty aud extensive
legislation. The Laws making power
should ever act calmly and deliberately.
aud should particularly exercise great
watclfuncss to prevent the passage. un.
der guise of the rrofessod public benefit,
If enactments whose whole design and
effect are to accomplish private and per-
soral ends.
The state of the public finances is al
ways q subject Of interest to the lcgisla
ture and the people An annual and
full exhibit of their condition affords
our constituents tie most complete
meats Of scrutinizirg the conduct OF
those to WHOM the care Of the Common
wealth has been entrusted, and who APP
propriatc and expended her funds
This exhibit in sonc Of the States is
made by the Executive in his annual
mcssago--As. uudcr our system dis.
Nursing officers DO not report to the
Executive can only direct YOU to the
Auditors Report. which should exhibit
the condition of all our financial affliis
Our people require discreet frugality
on the part Cf their public servants. AID
thoy are too well informed to be dee, ivcd
in regard to the necessary expenditures
Of time and money in conducting the af
fairs of government They require in
the management Of public matters the
same economy which wise man cxcrci
scs in his own affairs. that true econo.
my, which denies al unnecessary and
useless expenditures. Tut is liberal and
even munifccnt in everything that con
duces to the lasting glory and rrosl Gritty
Of the Commonwealth
The term Of flee If one Of our Sen
ators in Congress viii expire ON the
third day of March next. 1t therefore
dcvolves upon the Legislature to elect a
Senator to represent this State in the
Congress Of the United States for ak
years from that date.
| have thus advcrted to some of the
matters connected with our domestic
policy. But we constitute a part of
another Government, in whose action
We have "A most vital interest and deem
II proper 10 devote some attention to the
measures ard tho policy of that Govern.
mCnt, which are now deeply agi;ating
the county.
The national Republic which our fa
theirs established, rested for its ground
work upon the great principle Of The nat.
uraI freedom and equality of man. and
the inalicnable character Of those rights.
Though, from canses beyond their con.
troll. system Of domestic slavery exis-
ted in some of the colonies which united
together to shake off oppression and TO
found nation, whose vitalizing piinci
pie should be the civil and religious free
dom Of its people. yet by the common
opinion Of all the early patriots and
statesmen from every section of the
Union. this institution was regarded
as a lamentable evil and shameful
contradiction to the national idea and
its extension was clrefuly prohi.
bi'ed, and its extinction confidently
expected as speedily as the cir
cumsiances of the country and the
anomalous nature of the evil would per.
nit. That the founders of the republic
considered Liberty to be national. and
the cardinal principle If the government.
and slavery local and exceptional that
they aimed to spread the blessings of The
one over the wide extent Of the national
territory, and to confne the evils of the
other within its already established lin.
its; and thut such was the plan and
practice of the government in its earlier
days If purity, is conclusiveiy shown BY
the terms OF the Declaration ofludepen.
dence, the Ordinance Of 1887, the care.
ful avoidance of tho word slave 10 the
Constitution, the prohibition. under the
severest penalties, of the African Slave
Tradn and the abundant tnsti,nony of