Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-09-16
no. The preamble and resolutions

are copied from the Clinton fefsct0n@
Democrat, of the 9th. We trust that
the good sense Of the Judge who IL
about to be memorialized on the sub
iect of adjourning the October term
of Court in East Feliciana until after
a meeting of the next Legislature,
may lead him to d prompt accord
with the views and petition of the
memorialists.
1t is one Of the most deplorable
consequences of the war, that men
should exhibit in times like these,
such indecent haste, such callousness
of heart and soul as to rush into
courts and institute oppressive law
suits to crafty their speculative lusts
for gain. There has been considera-
BILE "sbarp practice Of this sort in
parishes where all save hardened
spectators have been subjected more
or less to severe losses from the war,
without n chance to recover from
those losses. There is class OF
honest fair-dealing men who engage
in speculations not in spirit to take
undue advantage of, and Cypress
their neighbors, and who manifest
withal some interest in the public
welfare, some humanitarian impulses
and feelings toward their fellow-men.
We would not include that class in
our remarks. We would not pretend
to rank them in that category OF
Shylocks, who display such relent-
less hankerings after the goods and
chattels, lands and tenements" OF the
already impoverished people OF the
country. Public discrimination is
quick at ranking these respective
classes where they properly belong
We cry aloud against the terrible
and unspaning system which prompts
a public enemy in time Of war to inlure
and destroy, to plumber and desolate
the land, but what shall we say OF
those cormorants pretending TO be OF
the people, who as soon as the war
| was closed aud bright-eyed peace
came smllipgly to give hope and en-
enlargement to our poor, distracted
country, rushed into the courts with
their shaved paper and other bought
up claims in their hands, to obtain
snap Judgments against parties, whom
perhaps they had never sought, nor
desired to seek, by an amicable de.
mand, to adjust or secure the pay
| ment of those claims otherwise than
by involving said parties in lit.
gious and expensive process?
! We think it was very unfortunate,
and in many respects unwise, 50 soon
| after the great calamities Of the war,
that Courts should have been held
| for the entertainment or transaction
Of any such oppressive sort of bust
ness. Time should have been allowed
the country to resuscitate from its
long suffering condition time should
have been allowed the people to
emerge from their sea of troubles and
sorrows, and to regain somewhat
! their fallen fortunes, ere the courts
should have opened their portals to
such victimizing and rapacious prose
cutions as have been enacted within
their precincts since the close Of the
war. The law as we take it, in q
sense of just and honorable inter.
probation, is intended for The protec.
ton of honest well meaning citizens
and society at large, against the en-
croachments and abuses Of wrong and
oppression and not for the benefit
mainly of few landsharks, who
assuming it as a guise, go before tbs
Courts to obtain by judicial sanction
the privilege of indulging their vora.
cious and despicable propensities
and this, they would fain call Justice
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