The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-11-18

prise-iudoced by the grub game attach
ment laws Of the state, has not fairly
driven away majority of these eini.
grants Enterprise every where needs
confidence more than capital. But, if a
young man q, the ou,se, Of life cen So.
cure neither the cold bleak hills Of q
Vermont wibter become desclate indeed;
and be must seek new home and other
and more genial associations The laws
OF his native State say. that 10 the use
of capital in business furnished by 9th.
ers, he must be treated as a rogue, and
weapon must be put into the hands of
his creditor, to intimidate or to punish
him, as il he we're thief His friend
and beDefactor who starts him in bust
ness knows botter but the Law has put
weapon into the hands of every other
person with whom the young tradesman
deals to punish him, as If be we're verify
guilty Of frauds in all his transactions.
The self-respect, the manhood aud sense
OF honor Of the victim of such circum
stances. are impaired or broken down.
His benefaotor becomes afraid someb body
"sotU attach, "---concludes the enter.
prise hopeless, withdraws his aid takes
an assignment of the coucefn. and, if he
thinks b, can afford il. lends the young
man S50-xith which he starts to
seek some CLINE where attachment laws
are not hyttrta spectre to induce ms
terial beings, to work the rain Of taeir
fellows
Panic is q moro deadlv disease in its
effect on the commercial world than chol.
era or fever to tho human body, or the
experience Of our commercisl cities for
the last month can we'll testify No
matter how causeless the alarm, its effects
are equally disastrous. But your attach
ment laws are the source Of q perpetual
panic which brushes out tho incipieut es.
terprises Of your ynung people starting
in life. Your int ,ligent youngtman has
discovered a marblevein Or iron ore bed
or can pure base a lot of valuable timber
lands, and he wishes to work there if he
can obtain means. Judge A has $4,000
or $4,000 which he would be willing TO
invest n any paying enterprise. Our
Intelligent young man has made sDqui
ries of the expense Of carrying on his
proposed business, aud the time requisite
to realize returns for the ospitrl invest.
ed. The Judge thinks it over, AMI con
cludes it would be good Investment,
and that the discretion and industry Of
the young uan are perfectly reliable, but
stop, he cannot follow the investment Of
bis own money, for some scnrvy attach.
ing creditor may step in and sell out the
half manufactured Product of the bust.
ness tor = song, 50 the iron is left to
sleep in the mountains. and the marble
is reserved for the monument of some
great man Of tho next centnry.
| am we'll aware that your qnid
nnncs,twho congrega's at vi l.ge post.
"ftioes, while they would look with q
" Mrs. Partinston stare" at the lack Of
business progress in Vermont, can sp
preciate no connection between the ex
isting state Of things and the subsi,ting
laws which half annihllste the business
Confidence Of the State. They w,uld
fail to appreciate the distrnstful charsc
ter Of business credit aft ,rdsd under
attachment laws as Intimately associated
with the bankruptcy Of a maj 'rity OF
your merchants aud manufacturers that
has been realized, ton sadly, for the last
twenty five years Tho vol growing
nabobs, who have aided farm to farm and
converted the late nicely cultivated
feeds OF their late neivhbors to sheep
pastures are but q sorry compel sation
for the loss Of the practical, industrial
enterprise, driven from Vermont by the
distrust inculcated in the minds Of her
people by the laws in question. Though
those fellows might scarcely feel that q
New York South street importer were
fit associate for them, yet tha. they are
public benefaetors while they represent
the diminution of the wealth Of the
State-its dilapidation aud decay is not
80 clear, Vermont may boast Of these,
but ,hey. represen. the poverty, while tue
practical and active agencies of . new
lite are driven from her borders, r
Yours, truly. t.s.-.-., ..