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When his powers of research into their in one place, he can change the localit swindling to a new sphere, and repeat his out limit or restraint, upon another comm honest laborers:

The bankrupt remedy is compulsory. enforce it upon a defaulting debtor. I stringent, and its penalties are severe. unfairness lie with the bankrupt to explai one discharge. No man can obtain a seco law. These are its leading and distinct where.

And still this remedy always meets wit gent opponents, who maintain that no la annulled by law.

The Congress of the United States, aga enacted this law twice; but very soon, and repealed it.

But this new code abolishes the liabilit pear and explain what he has done with creditor, to any amount, and for his whol an indemnity for the undisturbed possess $300 worth of property, even though it s property out of which the creditor has be

The only remedy left for the creditor i or indictment for swindling. These a mockeries.

Swindling is always perpetrated unde the usual circumstances which attend eve

The secret motives and fraudulent des will be cautiously concealed; they canno will not permit fraud to be implied or inf

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necessary occasions of his family; denied the fraudu -it could not be proved upon him, and he escaped punity; thus encouraged himself, and with an ex others to plunder and prey upon society.

These legal immunities were never intended for which means the "destitute." No poor man, or h ever asked for them. They were proposed by the under the influence of morbid sympathies and a mis of the rights of debtor and creditor; and these erro jects have been exposed and advocated by the lazy pled, and driveling politicians for popularity.

It is the same spirit of injustice and wrong, whic up the scheme called "free schools," in which the no part, but in which the dishonest, the reckless, an revel at the public expense.

It is aside from all the provisions for help to the made ostensibly for the poor, but with the secret desig fit knaves; the poor are not advantaged, but injured

The rights of creditors, and the validity of cont been dragged into the pauper police and profanely for the exclusive accommodation of the sinister.

What business has a pauper to be in debt? W has any man to run in debt, with the intention of his creditor? And what right has the legislature to f ors to support their debtors?

They have power to compel the public to contrib for the necessary support and comfort of the poor, for are compelled to pay their respective proportions.

But they have no right "to levy unequal taxes," a pel creditors to support their debtors, under the pr they are poor, and thus say to every creditor that his be converted into a poor rate, and a pauper contribut option of the debtor.

They have no right to invert the use of words, a name of the poor laws, which provides for "want" a tution," (for these are the defining words of the term to decree that he who has run in debt to any amou fuses to pay it, shall be embraced within the mean

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"Yes, it is true I owe you this thousa dollars; the amount is immaterial; my prope this six hundred bushels of corn, or one wheat, I bought of you to-day; or this thre cash I borrowed from you yesterday, with to pay you. But since then I have resolv a pauper, a poor man; and you must n hundred bushels of corn at your peril; tl liberty against you, and I shall hold you t

The legislature has no authority to lega mockeries, and in the name of, and on be enable men who are not poor, and who sho tation of pauperism as an insult, to rob and and industrious.

They have no right to establish immuni the wicked, nor for the honest, under the them capital to begin with, which will c man, who has earned and saved his means, a pound of meat and the rent of a house advance, and thus magnify and increase t tution of the real poor, necessarily throw t increase the poor taxes, and encourage ext by giving them license, not only to swindl compel their creditors to make individual o hundred dollars to every adroit knave who them.

All the rights and remedies of credit taken from them, and given to their debto There is but one step more to be tak stride obviously meditated.

The child, perhaps, is now alive who wi ther exemption made by law of a thousand be ycleped a HOMESTEAD, and an annual ex those who own anything above these two e to pay the expenses of the living of th unless the honest men, who do earn and sa

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The natural inclination for sloth, and repugnance study and patient labor, and the sordid desire to gras fruits of industry and genius, without having claim are the cause of all the bungling and superficial per of duty.

There are but few who honestly perform their dut either do not understand it, or do not care how it is do are restless, and blame their neglected employments they do not supply their accommodations for idleness digality.

Every respectable employment, properly and faith sued, will prosper, with a thorough knowledge of it, a gent attention to all its details. Too much should no dertaken by one person at one time.

Tanning, shoemaking, farming, storekeeping, gro and squiring cannot all be done by one man; nor can efficiently be a conveyancer, attorney, and congressma same time; nor a bleeder, dentist, apothecary, and at one time.

These different professions were practiced by diffe sons in former ages.

A single fact, which has more power with the ignor arguments, will show the force of this proposition. It is of a gentleman who had an obstinate cutaneo tion on the end of his nose, for the cure of which he five years invoked the medical skill of the United St London and Paris.

He held a public post of distinction, in which he stantly exposed to observation; possessed a large fort enjoyed high rank for learning, talents, and integrity.

With all these enviable concurrences, in the mid-da his health, peace, and pride were crushed, and despai upon all his hopes like a thick cloud. At length he his office, covered up with a mask the advancing an fungus, and resigned himself to voluntary imprison life.

On his way home, he halted for the night at the city where he was spied out by a sagacious old friend, who

Hope flashed upon his agonized heart. ferred to was consulted; the story and t patient carefully written down; and tim posed for thought and research.

The next day a prescription was ordered for fifty cents; the blistered and persecut from its brutal harness, and covered with s ents; a tablespoonful of the preparation wa day, with generous living, and free exerci twelve days; during which time the disg dually vanished, and the perishing featur form, color, and texture.

Thus far the doctor and his patient w other. Now there had been miraculously ing fatal monster, and a new-born tang human face in its place.

The senses and imagination of the pati bewildering amazement !! Was it a trea a cunning trick to excite hope and betray h this a certain cure, or would the hideous unrelenting and deathly fangs upon his mental agitations fraught with thrilling h

The doctor calmly allayed his fears, an gible, lucid, unassuming, and scientific e mote, internal, latent, and secret causes o like many other diseases, have their seat sible parts, and develop their symptoms b and healthy surfaces of the body.

He told him that it was not inherent o could be prevented or removed by the sa being requested to name his charge, di was too much.

The curious may be informed that t servant of the public received, in place of munificent benefaction as a just reward and learning. How much bright light ject under consideration by this true reve

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