The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-12-01

the representation os reliable citizens in
the vicinaSe, there were sufficient grounds
Tor such interpostion. In n very few i'm
stances, full pardons have been granted
for the want of facilities for seperate and
solitary confinement At Charleston and
Coumbia-the points at which your
Court of Appeals assemblies, or at some
one salsbrious locality, accessible at all
seasons Of the YEAR such facilities ought
! to be provided as soon as the state Of the
treasury will permit, not in substitution,
but i'll aid Of the Jaw prescribing capital
! punishment III certain cases.
1t is much 10 be regretted that under
system of sound laws, with incumbents
OF reputed worth and character in exec,
utiNe, judicial ard police officers, and
with citizens soliciting Office as soon as
vacant, it should be deemed necessary
IN any part of the State to enforce and
sustain law by means of clubs and Wig,
Iant committees If it be odious to adj
minister the law, let no officer be ap.
pointed for this purpose. II it he ne.
cessary for faithful officer 10 apollo,
gise to the public whenever he does his
duty, the law will become mockerv,
and a mere pretence of justice, the officer
a ridiculous and expensive pageant. Or,
der IN society, peace and good mdcrS,an.
ding among neighbors, is best attained bv
adherence 10 law on the part Of all per
sons, and is preserved by faithful and er.
ticcnt officers. Policy demands certainty
OF punishment, and for the first offence
! al Il
second. In the management Of chalita,
ble and trust funds, suggest that the
officers Of the Court be enjoined by law
to require loans to be secured by mort.
gage o! real estate instead of pei >onal sure,
| ~, or TO invest IN stocks Of this State. |
will also venture to suggest that admins
traitors, trustees and guardians, should not
use, III their business transactions, the
funds entrusted to their keeping. Sep.
arate and distinct accounts kept with
equal accuracy and care. will ultimately
lie more satisfactory to both guardian a, d
wand, aud more productive Of safe prece'
dents.
FEDERAL RELATIoNs-Hcrcwiih trans.
NIT resolutions from the Legislatures of
certain States of the Cohfedcracy Those
| from New York and New Jersey relate to
the Lighthouse Board, and TO certain pro
visions ioI the relief of persons and proper
| ty shpwrocked on the coast; those from
Texas, expressing sentiments OF cDm..un
interest 10 our citizens, will command yuur
| attention those from New England de-
nounce, as usual, our system Of domestic
slavery, together with the late decision of
the United States Supreme Court This
species of agitation, sectional and disorgan-
izlng, proceeds from persons who seem TO
be incapable OF entertaining just sentiments
towards their ncighbors, the people Of the
Southern States. True liberty con lists in
| tie Will and the power 10 perform our duty
to God and 10 our ncighbor. His service i
only perfect freedom. The members of a
! Legislature who can thus resolve, dcsccratc
the name OF freedom, aud prevcrt its mean
! ing. by harburng such feelings towards
| their neighbors who sanction and cherish
| African slavery rs domestic institution,
| inherited from their fathers, they expose
| themselves to the imputation Of being faith
less 10 the Constitution, from the preamble
Of which they quote. The resolutions Go
not merit Il response on yopr part .'One
OF the expeiicntS of party to acquire inf u>
cnce in their particular districts, is to mis-
%
districts"
The faithful and distinguished Rcprcsen-
tative Of your Sixth Congressional District
has oppor;unely reproduced and ably sta
ted, the argument for free trade, and against
protective tariff. | trust that the arpu-
mcnt now recognized in all civilized Europe
will not have lost ills power in America,
| combatted though it may bc by organized
| interests hostile TO its progress, which know
TO" well how ID acquire influence at the
seat of Government. There can he no ey
cuse based upon the exigencie1 OF govern
! mcnt for even raising the scale Of imposts,
so long rs the States hold on deposit large
sum OF money ut the credit OF the United
States Treasury. The lapse of time has
served TO show how tue, how prophetic,
were the words OF warning, uttered by our
Wise and lar seeing statesmen near thirty
years ago. The last words OF their distir
gushed leader, addressed to the Senate of
the United States, still ring in our ears
they cannot be forgotten by thoughtful men
North and South. Eight years have PASSED
since he spoke. We are not stronger rela
| lively now than then. Indeed. we can no
| longer point to the equilibrium in the SEN
ate which then obtained, though in n con-
dilion just now of quiet prosperity and of
comparative harmony, which may endute
until an election for President and Vice Pres
idcnt. This election, every fourth year,
seems destined to be the allah, orbing top
c, upon which unhappily Is said to depend
everything, even the integrity of the Union
10 operate upon it effectively, parties become
naiional--irresponsble conventions are con.
voked, and so powerful is their organization
that no citizen is likely TO b. recognized as
having claim to Federal honors or dis, inc
lion, unless he attach himself to one or the
other national party. II is true, tile party
OF the Dem 'crry being now in power, is
Justified in nniling lis parts in combination,
to resist the opposition which has con- blned
against it. But bear with NE while again
throw out the caution that this condition of
things is not favorable to the rights Of the
States, leads inseDsiLIy 10 consolidation,
and to the Introduction OF foreign influences
so fatal to Republican Government. Fatal
especially would it be- in our Federative
Republic, which, like the solar system, is
preserved in equipoise and harmonious