New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-12
SLAVE .ExEMpTIoN.

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| afcwxeeks since we expressed orr views in regard
10 the pocy proposed in sundry quarters to exempt
| 4 certain number Of slaves-one was the minimum
Ia FIVE the maximunfrom sale under execution for
debt, The argument, and it can only be termed SO
by straning point out Of regard for the rules that
royern courteous controversies urged in favor of this
policy only embraced single proposition worth men
tioning That position amounted to this: An e.
empticn law, BY exempting given number Of slaves
from tie laws providing for the collection Of debts
would tend to strengthen the institution among the
Southern people by increasing the number of slave
holders. f n
The Alpha and Omega, the Genesis and Revela-
tions Of the slave exenptors, are comprised in the
foregoing proposition.
We took the ground that the argument was falla-
cous and the policy proposed calculated to produce
exactly opposite results to those contemplated by its
authors An exemption law would not, certainly, re-
duee the price Of slaves enable the poor man. now
unable to purchase a servant, to obtain one when
special legislation had rendered that kind of property
to certain extent exclusive, and, as a matter of
course, more difficult of procurement.
This trifing difficulty never appeared to enter into
the wise heads Of the slave exemptionists and So,
with al innocence refreshing to behold they propose
to strengthen slavery by hedging in the institution
with restrictive laws, which can only be surmounted
BY men amply supplied with gold and silver in order
as teysay to enable the poor man. destitute of gold
and silver, to become Shareholder! is 81
Tie appeals made in behalf of slave exemption
possess large amount of FEASIBILITY at the first
blush; nothing more. The subject will not bear in
yestigation We all desire to strengthen the South,
and when measure purporting to advance our section
is offered we too often take for granted that all is
right, when in reality, all is wrong. This is the be-
setting sin ofsolr people, and which they cannot
too quickly ignore and get rid of The slavery in
teres ID the real Southern interest 1t rises above all
other interests Consequently questions closely re-
lating to it cannot be too carefully scanned too
profoundly pondered. sgs
On this subject the Brandon. Republican, Of the
STU inst an influential Mississippi paper-contains
yery excellent article extracts from which we take
pleasure in subjoining. Says The Repub liean:
In tie place class Of ropsy holders will be raised
s liz ene m
syes and Otherwise render il more difficult for men Of lin
e s
rs whose pery is allowed to come into the hands
Of The officers p the iaw-
4 would This and lot worth $1,000 and
ne nc hree slaves worth and rents liz prem
npan which he yess Extend such conparson and wy dis
an Indication that desired IS oJe brought about The
5 M Ya hss eae s
turing would feel bi serious and destructive
Speaking Of the benefits claimed for an exemption
Law, the Republican pertinently remarks:
have the virtues claimed been shown est
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M who soa reeege 70 f.e lit mue
detrment by its practical ops1ntions
1t is for reasons like these, and many others we
would bring forward if necessary that oppose the
slavery exemption project. We contend if A owes
Just debt should be obliged to pay at least as far
as sale Of his property would effect thatend. has
no legal or moral right to the enjoyment of property
held aud possessed at the expense of BIS honestly
earned money.
MARINE DIsAsTERs.-The New York papers of the
lst inst inform US that the schooner Henrietta Capt
Perry, had been dismasted and disabled at he1
crew were taken off by the ship India.
The brigs Venus and Louisa had been abandoned
at sea- the crew Of the latter having been safely taken
off; nothing was known regarding the fate of the
former.
The schooner White Sqnall arrived at Norfolk OF
the It'll inst in Distress reports that on the 23d in
the heavy gale, a sehoonerof about $50 TONS with
yellow house and gold balls on topmast, bore down
to his vessel and endeavored to alongside. Theil
rigging struck and the captain and crew tried to gel
aboard. The vessel had lost head and sails and
sinking. Her name was not learned, but she hailed
from Bucksport. The wind parted the vessels and
bore to windward. The w. S. had to throw go to 70
tons of coal overheard to keep aoat on the 23d She
was bound from Alexandria to Philadelphia.
shin Red Gauntlet al Vo,l,
on the I'd, from Canton, reports that when250 miles
southeast Of Sandy Hook saw the soop Freesly, OF
Camden, N. j. abandoned, drifting eeward, her sails
farled in good order, It was blowing 50 heavily that
she eouldno be boarded. = &