THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE. UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOR. it i jfliW SERIES. EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1863. VOL. 10 NO. 40. EMOCRAT cfe SEXT1XELT U published every Wednesday I "t v- i- I "vf T 1 t 1 vn Ft fru v Pnviro Jiraum, payable in advance ; Oxb Dol ; R ,Xu Sbvestt Five Cents, if not paid in six months ; and Two Dollar if . piil unlit me lernmiauou oi me year. a' i t ..,mi will viuu,! pafl fVn. a Crtcr period than si months, aud no Writer will be at liberty to discontinue j. paper until all arrearages are paid, ex J -.. tlie option of the editor. Any per il subscribing fr six months wil be char ..j Oss Dollar, unless the money One inserPn. Tico do. Tliree do Uiture. I i - noes ow m m siiuarc-. i- ones i uv i. ou uu 'i r... 1- I -i r s o o r ivires. ISO lines l i oJ i uu o uu 3 months. a A -a w S ji;w.f .r '.ess, i u ,arc. la lines S &o 1 r . . l T J AA i ires. - lines uu iar" l.i'f aoHunn, (he column. f.'JG lines 6 00 10 HU 15 00 tt do. $3 00 4 50 7 00 9 00 12 00 22 00 12 do $5 00 9 00 12 00 14 00 20 0C 35 01 A Black Record. GOVERNOR CUKTIN'S PORTRAIT DRAWN BY A BLACK REPUB LICAN EDITOR. VOTERS, READ!! The following article appeared on the 20th of July last in the Pittsburg Gazette, an Abolition sheet of the darkest dye, which shows the estimation, iu which Governor Ci irnx is held by a large ma jority of his own party. An artist from the infernal regions is not likely to paint the devil blacker than he is. and we mav dent to withhold its report from the Legisla-1 fort and feed them ture at the ensuing session of that body. It found however although it passed over the Frowenfield case becaese it was depending in the courts that ' the soldiers were in rags.' With every disposition to deal gently with the Governor, it condemneil his appoint incuts ami the mode pursued by Vie Govern ment in making its purchases.' It declared that 4 the absence of a strict supervisory power had betn the cause of much of the mischief that had In-fallen the State.1 It re marked, in oliservina upon the cJiaracler of the Governor's agents, that i7 could not for a moment be swposed that there were not men in Pennsylvania whose services could have been commanded, and who, by education and ability, were equal to occasions that had arisen, and thut the ajyioinfmcnt by an Ex ecutive, from personal or partisan motives, of incompetent aaents to offices of great re- i sponsibility, is, at all times, a grace direltc I Hon fro.n duty, never more so than in great ' public emaaencies, when the disasters result iugfrom the ignorance or incomjtetence of the ! agents. Jor whose apinnlment he i resjtonst Kr "m the Portland Advertiser J 1 Capital Hit A Ilymu. fairly infer that it "13 a correct likeness as far as it goo?, and that the history of the j ble, will inerrfabty exnte susjyirions f fraud, h-nlnnr-P of 1,U ml-d.v.W wl.W-h tlin writer, i and return home 'to the Executive in hnmilia- H Y i N i It I V T i iiii;.'. Ancient Abraham, 'eve-rial lnunlrvil rnr. Wc J.n.hi't no :;o, anl so we roir.e aionjr ; lia'in't U rich parents to pony up the tiu, e wt-nt i".iU the l'ioVo.-t, and there v.t-ri: UiU-ttTt-d in. ting charges of collusion-7 Ami it closed by observiu' that they also report, in general exhibit this reckless aspirant for new Gub- as the result of their investigatims, that !. f j r- . r says he has " scarcely j-et ocned," would Uk'.u'i i" " r:iliMr.us," nor any green - and T'Ut us in rack : . r raieJ us over tli iV'CK ; . i . !)! man with bag'utt rose up ami iC A tin wav. oniational honors (and iierhups sholdy contracts) iu a still more unfavor- ablo light : " We have already suggested that we would regard the reuomi nation of Governor Curtin as a great calamity to the party and to the Country, foi the double reason that we should expose ourselves to the imminent risk 1 defeat, if we did not even sVow thereby that we had deserve! it, and that we should render a very doubtful service to either, by electing bim. - We now proceed to a-igu some of the reasons for that opin ion. -" ' , T J, .J" ineomiieicnce. OI snurp ueuin), uccrr in uist- Ot i worlhu. and here eminently disgraceful, I bad appointments, which, although under I the peculiar circumstauces of the times to lie expe-cteJ, arc none the Ie?s to be con demned.' " The iiidicial investigations of the Frow en field c.-rse having proved a failure in con sen uence of o .iie Jisap- noarance of the witness and the flight of one of the defendants, a new committee was raised at the next session of the Legislature. by which it was found, among other things that the case, as shown by the absconding in plenty. But this money now fills the pockets of bloateel contractors, shoddy-men, and purveyors of mule beef- the allies, friends and sup porters of Cuirns. And now you are atJ.eil to vote for this jdundcrer of our brave volunteer as the " Soldieks Fkiknd." Show him, and all his grasping crew, that vou are not to be so deceived. Re- j member that every Democratic vote cast Judge Woodward's Opinlou on of the indefinitcness of the possible stay. the Soldier' Slay Law. "Woouwakd, J. The 4 th section of the Act of 18th April, 18G1, P. L. p. 400, is in these words : 4 No civil pro cess shall issue or be enforced against any person mustered into the service of this State or of the United Slates, during the ! term ior which lie shall be engaged in such service, nor until thirty days alter he shall have been discharged therefrom ; on the second Tuesday of October will be-a vote against corruption, against fraud ulent contracts, against the wicket! and dis honest men who have sent the sons of Pennsylvania to the field in rags above all against Ci etix, who is the father, friend and advocate of all this rascality, as the newspapers of his own part' testify. and of the subversion of the authority of the Courts over judgments upon their re cords. From the ruling in that case and the authorities cited, if may be inferred that, in respect to contracts which do not treat of remedies, we hold any law to be constitutional which gives a stay for a time that is definite and not unreasonable, but unconstitutional if the stay be for an indefinite time, or for a time that is tin- ! reasonable, though definite. 44 Wo have seen that the stay given by the act of 18G1 was not indefinite as to its maximum duration, but was for a period certain and prefixed, or, at the least, a period that is capable of lieing easily reduced to certainty. Was that period reasonable? The stay is a long one, it must be confessed longer than is usual lunger than can be justified, except bv 44 CLING TO THE CONSTITU TION, AS THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND DIM." Daniel Webster. The above extract is replete with patri otism, and full of warning. The ;keat exini xikk fully appreciated the imiior tance of a Constitutional Union. He well knew that a Union without the Con stitution was but a . 4 barren lig tree," a watery waste, a fearful delusion, the veri est ot desKtisms. He tells us to "cling to the Constitution" as our only hope, as our last Ikik. lie tells Provided, that the operation of all statutes j ot limitation shall lie suspeii-lcd upon all ; claims against such perscn during such j term.' 44 The principal question upon the re- ; cerd is, whether this section be constitu- ! tional. Although it occurs in an act ; supplementary to the penal Iqyvs of the Commonwealth, and does not mention the ' .i-,.. niilitnrt service, either of the State or of - mJil peculiar ana pressing circumstances, the United States, yet it is universally I There is great force in the reasons which understood, and no doubt correctly under- ! tl,e learned judge below urged against it, stood, to be a stay law of all legal pro- ! T,-" enforced delay of a civil right, the cess against soldiers mustered into the i deterioration of the mortgaged estate, and military service of the Govomnient. And the consequent pecuniary loss are entitled it is a stay for a term the term for which , to mU consideration m judging ot the ho shall be engaged. The act of Congress of 22d July, 18G1, under which the first ! half million of volunteers were mustered 1 into the sen ice of the United States, i fixed the torm at not more than three- reasonableness of the law. Etervbodv feels that a stay of remedies on a mort gage for fifty years, for instance, would be a wanton sacrifice ef the constitutional of the citizen. What better is a rights years nor less than six months, and the j stay for 11 ,i,ne f il long enough I affidavit which was filed on behalf of the ; defendant, says that he had loeii mustered in for three years or during the war. 1 his is the same phrase that was used in the 19th section of our act of Assembly of V took us t an island in the harbor -.tiled M ickey. P, v: wc . "r.. dtis wa :dl right, our u-n.;ur, it wa:i t wiong; v r.'.vA us hullv follows, and so L;..tU' -tig ; .li.In"; I.hvc three hundred just at thai ri"ii.i day. ! ti'k t!'j line of march to the Inland of M...k.v. T rs 'a . haps, as l.:td the ?ithixis and .-.iM :s lun Jnlruciii7is ; A: i "Hie with tertian ague made curious ki'M-fluctk-ns : n ! .- n. with UK-niited eye glass as couldn't ee ii dray : S'tiit-v didn't all go with u to the Island of M.ickav. ' witness, who had afterwards returned, was r. l: J t i " - - ... ... . ii oiiiKH ii-i'uan, c- imiiiv. a clear caseot fraudulent complicity be-, hu administration has proved eminently dis- j tween the contractors and Chas. M. Neal ; astrous to the party which brought him iutt j that the clothinir furtishel to the soldiers i-ow er. could have been afforded at 3 50 nor suit 1 That if has been an unfortunate one for oivrr.. iinil vet have left to the I the Sta'e, the present condition of her Aun j extractors a profit oSl 50 that a large -is t ,h'r '"'if" nd and dilapidated revenues , ,llt,n ( it was entirely imfit for the use of tril abundantly attest. It is not clear that it t),c w,,i:t.rs 9Ui much of it fed .o lrteces in has been a wMcxnutc one j,,r the country. " i A sh .rt time after it was worn by them is but hco rlear that if has been a damaging umi . .j,at t,e flight of the Frow enfiehls was one for himself v damaging that it is more J ;ln,ost . ci--nelui ve tvit'ence that they, at than aoulilfid whether the L nwn sentiment, t icafit were conscious, of having defrandexl us in words not -ty, IW01, in reterence to me uc- ' i f i i serve oiunieer eui )N ;inu iu-iio? iiue.- the State.' Our readers will judge of the nualitv of this committee when they find them adding, that while the testimony of Ti 'w vwis some as had ?'j.snVi-f aud some exc -varicose, A;.-I . ut of th..e uiit'oitunates there is not 1 t:i-d to have t'f hi!es, but couldn't make it work, . 1 'ie3 for a brave soger and doesn't lucaii t-i shirk. Tiit-r wrv-; -?f.n:p wi.h hypcrtrojthy, al some with vtlres tricuspid, A: ' MitiiC who hail myyhia, aud some whose lungs was busted ; n-:t tiity all, so far as I seed, had very bes-t if clothes on, Ai : th niight have riher reasons, for all this ' soger kuows oa. striiwi as it unauesta-naUii is. irould be suli cieuttly jmwrrful to override the unfavorable otiinif ns so qrn rath entertained of his in tegrity and wisd-an. notwithstanding the more 0f Murphy seems to excite a strong suspicion than charitable reserve of the press, which has ' .1fr-r.nst X'eal. the tcstimonv of Neal himself lluiia a mantle over his faults, and perhaps ' ,. ,,f the narties imnlicaU-d. seems to clear I encouraged his friends and himsflf to believe j 1 1 j nl fr,,nl aj but1 a great want of judgim-nf ! that the hislaru of Ins aamutislration wal . m purchases and misapja ctiension as to continue a seaft imu, or ue jorgonen anna - hi duties. nv that his testimony shows the clangor ff arms and the strife of the bat that lie did not consider himself bound to tie-field. inquire either into the actual cost of the " He came into office less than three years i p,(MM;s used, or their fitness for thjurose in atro, with a huge majority, and legislature ; He,.' It is rather surprising that they of which nearly three-fourths of both j did not hunt up the Frowcnfields themselves branches either were, or claimed to be. Re- i as witnesses, who would, no doubt, have publicans. At the end t.f one session he ma'le a clear case of it for the defendants. li.nl thrown all that mnjorty away.1' j i convicting them aione they forgot that the i ofivnee charged was one which either in- Kn trusted with expending the first ap- volved the complicity of the other party or propriation made by the Le-gislature for the . n.lt exist at all, and therefore furnished couimou defense, he gave to his own crea- no f)CCa--icu for running away. They do. tures the power of making contracts, as his private agents, n relation to articles with i which they were entirely uutamiiiar. 10 ine : gicat injury of the soldier, who was victimi zed by their unskillfulness or fraud. This I fact was found by a committee ajipainfed by ' himself, uiieler the pressure of a public cla- j mor, which grew out of the treatment of the j volunteers who had assembled at llarnsuurg. lax our grasp we are gone forever lost, i ywirs or less, or not exceeding three years. It is 44 the last plank " and we are ex- The term of engagement, therefore, during l...rt..l to rlin.r to it ns tin nnlv bono ! which the above section meant that, the of. safety 44 when the tempests close a- defendant should round us." i process was three years to work csr-cutial depreciation of the se- curity ? I 44 Yet it is imjwjs.-ible to 'parat. this ' question of reasonableness from the actual ; circumstances in which the country found itself at the date of the law. Eleven j States had seceded or revolted 4rom tho Federal Union, and had set up an inde ; jtendent Government within the jurisdic j tion of the Constitution of the United not be subject to civil t states, and armed possession liad .ein from the date of : iat? OI torts, arsenals, custom houses, Those brave young men who had resjxaided j scarcely yet opened however, set down the case as one of afad ure of justice. We arc informed, however, that the confidence of the Gover nor iu Neal has beep in nowise shaken by these transactions. He still continues to be among his mott intimate and cherished friends. But enough for the present. We shall ieturn to the general subject which we have the first call of their counlru onsenpts vaKen, uie largesi . v-- - f - , - i ( -., I.si.i.l.i ..vt.iiitf shops If ere III U'JF. I'lf'l eitfitty m. taiHiv-) ; whose soles were stuffed with shavings, and j blankets aliiwst as thin and trausjiarent as a i wiudow jtane. It was reported and be- j lieved that they bad been given over to the ; tender mercies of a few heartless specula- tors who were then hovering about thceapN j tal. The officers at Camp Curu'n, justly in-.) dignaut at what they saw, drew up a spirited remonstrance to the legislature, which was t i.;t Uj all the portion numherei-l, S'IH-ed tip unto the officer and popped the thnv hundred ; A;.d tl.ey told us we were bully lmys to '.and in battles' fray, -ve went w itii the bold Corporal to the i-.le iu Casco Bay. ft -'re per-uaii(i . be soldiers, Tand iu.;et the foe. go to V't luviiijf the three hundred of course we're hound to go ; & i', 'a .' Father Abraham, money that's pai 1 o'er, F? careful that old Can.eroo don't "'.i'lirig more. of the get a Attain, the same paper made a last indig nant anneal to the Convention of contrac tors which nominated Ccktis, in these words : We hare endeavored to show iliat Curtin imjwsal vHn the soldiers by farming them out to his friends, and then denying that he had employed them. " W e have exhibited the record to estab lish the fact that he had approved a bill, ac knowledged by him fo be wrong, WHICH ROHHKI) THE TKKASSLKY. Ur' c'tf- comt'ng. Ancient Abram. " severial" humircii strong. Ho'tv coating Father Abraham, and as we inarch aljog, Vre thinking of tlie Union and the Con stitution . too. Is !one the nigger and w e'll btf p you p if it through. SVtap- I'll be a Major General, and wear the trinle ktars. Cut snrelr I rot them I'll devote myself c tr. Mars: tut w.m't General Butler, with his pockets full of dosh. viirp.-ie alxiut the country with ?uch po- litii-al bosh, for 1 r. the House, at their instance, i by one of our own memoers. ii suggusieu ULLilUJNS ur iuuihi ; tnar, as me con to him the propriety of an iuquiry as to the ; ditioLS of his approval, he had taken an uature of the contracts made for supplies, J agreement for the State, which he abstracted and the mimes of the agents through whom j nt secretly surrendered to the parties who they were made, and he offered a resolution j tSii given it; and that, when interrogated accoidiuglv. He wished t know, and to ; iJV ti)e Legislature, he confessed the fnct. let the public know whether it was true uiai j ami ottered, as his apology, a reason wmcn m-ndrv individuals then loitering around the l :s shown to hare been untrue. ra.nHl who were nointed out by the tongue We have demonstrated the fact that he of rumor and known to be entirely unfit for ; bargained aivay a Republican United States the r.urnose. had been actually commissioneu . iliat0r for me. consiacranon or an aajourn- Kxr th (invirnnr. as his aaents. to make cou- ,)tenf &nA the discharge of tho committee "j r . ' . " . . w : :.:.. i. !.;..!. trai't: tnr t in RO CT.erS. anDOiniCO lO iiiquuc luuua -" v...t inriivwlnalri was a certain i x..,a ,Mn uset to procure ilia passage ot v v v- - - - .... I " ' Chas. M. Neal, an active ward politician, tiat bill. and Actin" Commissioner of Fhiladelphia, , ju,l ve have inferred from all this who was understood to be an mumate ana w,f7l0ul referring to other matters uiai confidential friend of the Governor. The , HIS NOMINA! ION WOLL.I) Hh Ulh- answer of the Governor ignored the fact fJRACEb tL IU lllh i auu A.MJ iu? his employment, although the record shows j ELECTION IMPOSSIBLE." that on tlie very day preceeuingor louo-Ai.. Voters of i'ensvlvania this is tlie hi message to tlie House, he had endorsed ! . andHrJve5 ?a contract for clothing made ; man who is seeking your votes as the w !. identical individual with the Frowen- i i. V(,m' friend " our sons and broth- as T r universal nigger is at the man 1 o-n..,lcr that the white man is just good as be ; j we re coming. Father Abraham. seve- n . - rial " hnndreil stroDS. But to &?X for the old Union is the burden cf cur eong. Rton Tbivate Smitb, or roomrc fields of this city, in that special capacity On this contract Neal was afterwards in dicted here, and it was while that indictment was" depending that the Governor felt it necessary, in order to appease the pub'.ic clamor, or divert it from his own head, to raise a committee of his own appointment, to inquire iuto his own conduct. That cora mitUe proved, very unexpectedly, to be a fair ou-o fair, that it was deemed pru- 14 not the 44 tempest" upon us? has the "night not come t Is not the Ship of State floundering in the angry floods and amongst the -whirlpools of a great politi cal tempest ? are we not at this moment juA in the iiositicm of the 44 shipwrecked mariner ?" No sane man will say other wise. Then in the language of 1)ami:i. Wkiwtkk, our duty is plain. The issue involves the. life or death of the nation. If we discard the 44 plank " our doom is settled : there is, there can be no redemp tion for us as a nation of free people. Through the throes of revolution alone, usurped towers ever been restored to any i people. ? Will we stand idly by while j ruthless hands are destroying our birth- ; right secretly, but surely undermining the very foundat ions of a system of govern- I ment formed by the wisest, the purest and j best of men men who toiled through a j seven years 'war? Valley Forge, tier- t mantown," Hrandywine, Trenton. York- : town, and many other touted fields and en- sanguined battle grounds attest their fi- . . ... delity to the principles of civil and rcligi- J ous liberty. Such were the men who : framed our Constitution and formed our j Government. Their life struggle was a i deliverance from despotism. ly their : own strong arms and stout hearts they cast the manacles ffom their hands and j the yoke from off their necks. They left ; to our keeping the 44 pearl of great price "' : the inestimable boon of Hlitical and ' civil liberty. They btqueathed to us a : Government in jerleo.t working condition, ensuring the 44 greatest good to the greatest ; number," 44 a more perfect Lnion," bound j together by the Constitution al6ne. There j is no other bond of union, and upon that : 44 last plank" (the Constitution) we must. 44 sink or swim, survive or perish." Tho ; hoi f true patriots is centered in tho people, tho honest masses, not the twiiw- . rants and fanatics who hang round the i despicable and tyrannical, as well as weak J and vaseillating administrations, State and , National. ! The ballot-box is the potent instrument with w hich to m m. from power bad men, and place in their stead, good and true men who will 44 cling to the Constitution, as the shipwrecked mariner clings to the last plank, when night and the tcmcst close around him." Men who have ln-eii warned, and heed not, deserve the fate in store for them. Tho. issue is upon us ; we must meet it. Are we to remain free citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States of America, or are we to be the slaves of a central despotism, as bad, if not worse, than France or Kussia .' Huntingdon Jfonitoi: ! his muster, if the war hould last so long, navy yards, and other proierty of tho I nitcd States 'within the iKumdaries of tlie and if it should not. then until it should end. Thirty days were to lie added after f revolted Slates. In the judgment of the his Wh.-r-"e- whhh wo.dd make tho nt- 1 1'residcnt and Congress, who were the most extent of the term throe rears and i thirty days. The reference to the dura ! tion of the war is a restriction of the term, j not an extention of it beyond three years ! and thirty days. The duration of the : war was, at the date of the law, and --till ! is, uncertain, but the maximum period of i the sta- three years and thirty days ! tVum the date of tho muster is suseepti- ble of ascertainment with absolute ccr- ! many months, i taintv. It was suggested that the volun- " -Now, if a stay vears would not be Inlv constituted authorities, the occasion required an immense increase of the army and navv, and the active emolovment of lxith of those strong arms to subdue the rebellion and restore the Union. Accord ingly Congress authorized the President to accept volunteers, and to call upon the States for their militia. He did both, and a vast tu niy has been in the field for toer might re-enlist at the expiration of I his first term, and because this was iossi- -.. ble that the term of his engagement was ; necessarily uncertain. The answer is that the statute gives but one stay, which j is to be computed from the time of the j original muster, and a re-enlist merit would j not renew the stay. The statute refers j itself for "the term of the engagement to I the laws that were then in force fixing the i j eriod of enlistment, and, therefore, "we construe it according to the tenor of those i laws. ' 44 Such being the significance and cfTcct of the section, was the Legislature au thorized to enact it ? 44 We have often said that stay laws, exemption laws, and limitation laws, are ordinarily constitutional, though applied to existing and prior contracts, and we have followed the distinction which pre : vails in the Supreme Court of the United : Slates, between the obligation of the con I tract and the remedies furnished by law i for enforcing the obligation. We under- of execution for three tolerated in ordinary times, did not these circumstances consti tute an emergency that justified the push ing of legislation to the cxtreniest limit of the Constitution ? No citizen could br blamed for volunteering. lie was in voked to do so by appeals as strong as his love of country. In the nature of things there is nothing unreasonable in exemp ting a soldier's proji-crty from execution whilst he is absent from home battling for the suprnnaoy of tho Constitution at: I the integrity of the Union. And wh n ho has not run W fore he was sent, but has yielded himself up fo the call of Lis country, his seif-sacrilicing patriotism pleads. tiuiniRt-tongued, for all the in dulgence from his creditors which - tin Legislature have power to grant. If th- term of indulgence seem long in this in : stance, it was not longer than th? time f. r which tin 1 'resident and Congress uc : manded tho soldiers' services. It was not for him, nor is it for us, to rojudgo : the discretion of the President and Con- stand the rule to be that whilst the Legis- I pro -his regard. Ha sing ourselves on ers have gone to the war dressed in shod dy ; and many a brave boy has slcpl cold under a thin and rotten blanket, that Governor Cruris and his confederates might be enriched. Tlie State made noble provision for her volunteers voted monev enough to clothe thera with com- C3T A cockney tourist met a Scottish lassie r,tin,T barefoot toGlassgow. 4Ias sie," said he, 44 1 should like to know it all the' people in those parts go barefoot ?" 4 Part on 'em do, and part on 'em mind their own business," was the rather set tling reply. laturc may not impair the obligation they mav modify the remedy. Hut it some times happens that the parties contract concerning the remedy that they stipu late in the IkmIv of the contract that in case of failure of payment by a certain day there shall bo no stay of execution, or that the mortgagee may enter and sell the mortgaged estate or, that all exemp tion rights shall be waived. In such cases the rule is, that the remedy becomes part of the obligation of the contract, and anv subsequent statute which affects the remcdv impairs the obligation, and is un constitutional. Hrown v. Kcnzie, 1 How ard, 322, and Hillmyer v. Evans, 1 Wr. .'27, are illu.-trations of this rule. Tho time and manner in which stay laws shall j operate, are properly legislative questions, '' ; and will generally depend, said Judge ' Haldwin, in Jackson v. Larnphire, od j i Peters P. p. 200, 1 on the sound discre- i : tion of the legislature ; according to the nature of the titles, the situation of the country and the emergency which leads to the enactment. Cases inav occur where the provisions of a law may be so unrea sonable .as to amount to a denial of right, and call for the interiositioii of the court.' In Hrown, liaigueL & Co. v. (lorgas, t Wr. til. wo had an instance, of an un reasonable slav law unrea-on:d'Ie heeaiir-c what they did, constitutionally, the ques tion for us i.-. whether the stay granted by our own I.ogi-lniure to our citizen soldiers was uuivascnablf. In view of the extra ordinary eireunistaiu'es of the case, we cannot pronounce it unreasonable. We eo m it no wanton or careless disregard ol ;he obligation of c ntraets, but onlv a sincero eflort to enable the general (j vernnient to prosecute with success a war which, in it exclusive rigid of judgment, it resolved to wage. 44 Another circinu-tar.cc which bears on tlie reasonableness of the enactment is the proision which su--jeiids all statute- of limitation In fax or of ihe soldier during : all tho time that ho is exunputl from pro cess. Tho provisions were reciprocal and ioth More reasonable." C5i ""Gentlemen," said a fanner, wri ! ting to the Chairman of an agricultural society, "put me down on vour list of cattle for a calf." iiK.e mis- tji A hv are the cvebrow : takes ? It -cause thev are oeiighls. CiT Why is a man who runs in dJjt like a clock ? lrcaii' be goes on tick.
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