Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-06-27
The stay Law.Our Help.

The decision of the Court Of Appeals has
placed fairly before the minds Of the. people
their insolyent condition. The abolition If
property in negroes has destroyed the solve:.-
cy of whole communities. When two-thirda
of the wealth of the mass has thus been blot
ted out By stroke of the pen, any other
condition than that of insolvency, could not
be expected.
When thu Convention pronounced property
IN slaves, "no property" the Convention
what property was left should have been re-
aimed as compensation for that which had
ocen destroyed.
The whole weight of Indebtedness, basel
on property in negroes, and more or less
identified with it, ought not to rest on de-
preciated real est4te. The Convention shoula
nave had en- eye to the good Of the whole
people..
Tue effort of the Legislature to relieve
them has proved abortive. AS matters now
stand, the poor man is about to be made
poorer and the rich man, if he may be So
called, is about to take the poor mans place.
Had the Convention engrafted into the Cor
stituton, the measure of one Of its distn-
guished members, exempting from execution
and sale, real estate, or in other words, q
homestead feature, such as exists in Alabama
and Mississippi, We should rot be in our
present state Of litigation.
One thing is certain. Tho people must
take this matter in hand. What has not been
done for you, you must do for yourselves.
The time has comet You are about to be
sold to the speculator and the Yankee!
But there is redress in one Of three meas
ures that may be adopted by amending the
Constitution.
First-Exempt real estate from sale and
execution. This will induce debtor and credi.
tor to ompromise their accounts.
Secona-Creatc Homestead Law securing
to cverv man bis house, lot of three or four
hundred acres of land, and all the appliances
ne may have for working it, and to those per.
sons whose property is in investments, the
right and title, free from levy, to 81, 900.
Third.-Create Court of Adjudication
with power to graduate the debt to the pres
INT value Of property, and to say what pro-
portion Of it shall be paid.
We believe that the following will be tho
result of legislation according 10 citAer plan
suggested.
l. Every man will know what he GYMS.
lie will not DO burdencd with consuming
Indebtedness. lie can go to work with hope
md cheerfulness.
2. Conscience aud integrity will nor be
hrown away in the scramble to save some
hing, and the man who has nobly done his
duty in the war will not with his family be
TUNED cut Of doors by the man who has
..l.cn norn of b;menlr
3. Good men will not seek new homes and
lands and leave our untitled fields to tell Of
our woes.
4. We shall be saved the sad sight of see
ing our homes sold to Northern men lor
mere song.
We repeat, then action for the relief of
he people who staked everything on the late
war, is imperative. They are feeling deeply.
The anticipation of coming trouble has
Judgment in the heart of the widow and or.
phan; of the young husband, and aged
father; deep in the hearts of men who, fresh
rom the battle field, where they listened 20
the tramp of armies, now in the distance,
hear Me tread of the Sheriff.!
Let the people of tho country agitatc this
matter. Call your public meetings, create
opinion, and as you have right to do, while
providing for justice to the creditor, exact
justice for yourselves.-South Carolinian.