Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-07-14

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solutely compelled to pledge his Homestead
for. In their dealings with merchants, their
wants are almost solely fictitious In most
cases, their little necessary luxuries can be
compassed through the means of barter, and
these would be cultivated when merchants
refused them credit. Nor need the merchant
deny him credit who may have it in his
power to pay ip brief future. If there be
scruples, then let the merchant exact poll
cy of Insurance to the probable amount of
his wants during the year, and if he lives,
and is an honorable man, all will be right.
This Policy is simply in the character of
letter of credit. The sum of two or three
dollars will procure this letter of credit, or
Policy, say for one hundred dollars, which
the merchant would regard sufficient for his
protection to that amount of credit. Why
not? Does not every merchant traffic with
and trust SLAVES. Is the obligation of a poor
white mans honor beneath the trust extend
ed to an African7
The repeal of this law also opens the gate
of the poor mans little domain, to the ruth
less hand of his covetous neighbor. A SER
reptiods environment may be conducted
even for years, until when it needs but the
extension of the hand to gather the fruits of
per6dy. 1t is not then the prosperity of the
merchant, the fraudulent inancier or the
overreaching neighbor, that needs protec-
tion.
But will not, as I have said, Mr.. Editor,
extend this article beyond reasonable limit
for admission in some column of your paper.
The utility of this Law may be, in the Vi
cissitudes of life, home argument to any
one, but it was the intention of the writer
to choose its privilege, when he was inform
ed, a few days ago, that the law had been
repealed at the last session. The policy of
exempting certain property from execution
is admitted, perhaps, by every State in the
Union. In some States it is much more IA
vorable to the poor man than in others. But,
in this State, the remaining property now
exempt, perhaps could be bought at any sale
for as many cents as are in dollar. The
subject then ought to have been made shame
less by an entire repeal. What draw one
with family Of helpless children to the
teeth of adversely, to wander without shell
ter, and seek subsistence in the wild provi-
sion of nature? And what is all this legis-
lation for? That the merchant may die shame
fully rich! Would you visit with desolation
the little home of your fellow-man, and yet
point to the poor Indians wigwam for genial
legislation q? Is it in South Carolina alone
that the social ties of our nature are so loose
as to substitute all the horrors of want for
the commonest comforts of life?
But it is not in the spirit of bell-weather
to public opinion that write, nor do I ia
cetiously point at the omissions of others as
the result Of ignorance. This may be my
caprice, and what the Legislature did, was
done for the best; yet cannot but premise
that what was done for the best, was done
from the best they knew. Had the huge
sides of that stale Homestead, now reared at
the capital, inspired them with the shadow
Of its magnanimity or patriotism, the wood
man would have spared that tree. Protect
one in his vine and fig tree, and you take
away nothing that pertains to a freeman,
while you leave with him to cherish and a.
dorm it as source of happiness and comfort
to his family with emotions that blend with
that of his country's love; and the thought
of disrupting the ties of childhood's home
for one in "the land of the setting SUD, !" will
be rendered oblivious and forgettul.
j. B.