The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-09-27
cUI BONO I?

The temporary relief afforded to debtors BY the
massage of an Act suspending the Courts, SO far as
relates to causes contractu, is hardly fair COM
nensation for the external evidence thatthe Spring
term of the Court is likely toproye the rock upon
which the fortunes of hundreds are to be wrecked,
perhaps forever. AS q measure of relief to the
debtor, unless followed by radical legislation dur
ing the coming winter this panacea signally falls
and we are told that the advocates of the measure
concurred in It's adoption only because it was the
best to be- obtained, under the circumstances
WE'LL the people must become satisfied for the very
same reason, and patiently bide the future KNOW
ing that their representatives are actuated by an
honest desire to alleviate the suffering of an i'm
poyerished country, we're itin their powerso to do.
But while smarting under the infiction of this
knowledge, we are not yet satisfied, as one of the
neople that even this morsel will prevent much of
the evil foretold in regard to the abrogaton of the
Stay Law. Admitting that the suits now entered
of record are made returnabe to the Spring Courts,
it will not require many days for the grasping
creditor to ascertain the fact that 'the first comes
is first served is q rule equally good in law as
with the miller Therefore, if the class known as
creditors are the yoracious set they have been de-
picted claims against sundry individuals will flow
into the Clerks office, for future reference and
file, with nll the rapidity to be accomplished by
the slow delays of the law. But we have faith that
so far as this District is concerned, the measure
adopted is entirely unnecessary, and that creditors
with hero and there an exception, are not clamor-
Gus for their just claims, much less '.thc pound
of flesh' These few exceptions will scarcely let
the opportunity pass, in view of the probable
bankrupt law, to secure their claims, if possible,
at an earlier day than the meeting of the regular
session. The proof, however, of their desires Will
soon become apparent, and public opinion may
correct an inordinate ambition to secure them
selves, while other more lenent creditors are made
to suffer therefrom But it is not often that such
men care for public opinion, and our advice to
debtors in the aggregate is to place no reliance
upon the fmsy assistance of the law, In tins IN
stance, but set resolutely to work in manly effort
to compromise their indebtedness whenever prac-
tcable and lift themselves speedily from the mire
into which they are plunging and foundering to
no good purpose. In almost every case, your
creditor would infinitely prefer something tangible
now or prospectively certain even, than to be en-
cumbercd with your obligations for fabulous sums,
which he knows you are unable to pay We sub
nit that a spirit of generous compromise would do
more to wind up the old Indebtedness of the coun-
try, hanging like funeral pail over the energies
and prosperity of individuals, than all the legisla-
tive enactments ever to be devised by the concen-
.trated wisdom of the State. If our public men
will advocate this policy of compromise, and seek
to nfuse its spirit into the people generally, the
Shylocks of society will soon learn the part of
wisdom, and become the strongest adherents OF the
scheme.