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From the Richmond Enquirer.
Repeal of Use Fsury Laws.
In a former article on this subject, we exam
ined some of the arguments usually advanced
in support of anti usury laws. G e showed
that such laws were not sustained bv any pre
cept of the Bible, the prohibition thereon be
ing only a muu cipal regulation, peculiar to the
Jews, and which it would be senseless in na
tions, differently situated, to adopt. We also
proved that money does not receive its value
from dictum of Governments, but was regulat
ed by the great laws of value, vvnich govern
every other commodity, i. e the prime cost, of
production and the supply and demand. We
also demonstrated that the repeal ol our anti
u.,ury laws w ould benefit the needy borrower
in every wav, and could possibly injure only
that c uss whose trade it was to oppress by
extortionate laws.
We desire, in the next place, to examine
the tfleet of anti usury laws, /ifefdwcally.—
The fr emis of these most unwholesome re
strictive statutes, answer the arguments ad
vanced against them, by saying that they are
abstractions and theoretical, unsupported by
actual experience. Bet us see whether the an
swer is true.
The history of every nation, ancient and mo
dern, proves that the complaints of money bor
row ers against mo. ey tenders, have ever com
menced with the fir-t etiorts of the Govern
meat to control the rate of inti rest on money;
and that these complaints, leading to more
stringent legislation, have increased pari passu
with the rigor of the laws. Thus, in the ear
lier period.- of Roman history, we hear noth
ing of such complaints, because Irce trade in
money existed ; but i-o soon as the Govern
ment u,.dcrU ok to manage dealings in money,
and to prohibit or restrict the rate ot interest,
just su soi ndo we hear the loud and bitter
complaints against extortionate usurers
These complaints led to severer laws, which,
in thoir turn, led to still louder complah ts, un
til, as we are informed by Tacitus, this be
came the mosts: equent cause of sedition and
rebellion. At one time, when the matter came
befi re the Roman Senate, it found that a
large majority ofthe Senate were deeply in
volved in the violation of these laws, which
they had helped to enact. It was ascertained
that even the virtuous Brutus has received 45
per cent, on money loaned, “llie price ot mo
ney,” says Montesquieu, “rose higher just in
proportion to the severity of the law and the
danger of the borrower’s taking advantage ol
it-” McPherson, in liis history pi commerce,
bears the same te.-timony. “The clamor and
persecution,” sa\s he, “raised against tho.-e
who took interest for tiie use of money, was so
violent that they (the lenders) were obliged to
charge it much higher than the usual price,
and hence the usual rate of interest was what
we should now call most exorbitant and sean
dulous usury.”
The Koran prohibits all interest upon mo
ney, and hence we find that, in all Mahome
dau countries, the rates of interest is most ex
orbitant. Indeed, we are informed by travel
lers, that interest in Mahomedau eountv.es is
ten, or even twenty times as great as in coun
tries where its receipt is allowed.
Hallam tells us that during the 15th centu
ry, when the rate of interest in Italy and Ca
talonia, where parties weie alowed, for the
most part, to make their own bargains, was
comparatively moderate, while in France and
England, where it was wholly prohibited, it
was exorbitantly high. Hume says, that in
the times of Henry VI, of England, when all
interest was prohibited, the lowest rate of in
terest was 14 per cent. !he following facts,
which is well authenticated, speaks most con
clusively upon the effect of such restrictive
laws. In 1664, made 5 per cent, the legal
rate of interest. In 1166 the law was chang
ed, and the rate was reduced from 5 to 4 per
cent, it is said that before this change loans
could have been easily obtained, on good se
curity, ofs per cent.but an additional percent
wasn<>w charged to cover the risk of illegali
ty The same thing happened in Livonia, in
ITSG, when the Empress Catherine reduced
the legal rate from Gto 5 per cent. So soon
as tiie change was made, the market rate ot
interest rose 1 per cent higher
In England, during the reign of Henry VI,
as already stated, the lowest rate of interest
was 14 per cent., although the taking of any
was sternly prohibited. 1 his remained the
current rate until the law was changed, and 10 ;
per cent, was allowed. In the preamble to
this law, the following remarkable language
occurs : “The prohibiting act of Edward VI,
hath not done so much good as was hoped tor,
but rather the vice of usury hath much more
exceedingly abounded, to the utter undoing of
many gentlemen, merchants, occupiers and
others, u> the importable hurt of the Common
wealth.”
All laws against usury were abolished by
revolution in Finmee ; yet it is said that no
rise of interest followed. In Holland there
are u<) laws ue msi n-ury, and we find that
t e rate of interest here is lower than in any
o her country.
Euuii is the uniform testimony of history.—
•’ e defy the product ion of a single contradict
ing fact. The proof is conclusive, and should
convince every reasonable and impartial man.
But let us see it we cannot add to this test!
luoiiy b\ facts of more recent date.
The anti-usury laws of England have at last
yielded to a half century of fierce attack.—
he test ■ f their injurious effects were most
thorough and convincing. Fir.-t, these laws
were repealed as to negotiable paper, and the
effect of tuis partial repeal was most sensibly
experienced during the money pressure of
1837. After this the general Saw was repeal
ed for one year ; at the end of that year, the
repeal for another year, and so on from year
to year the test was applied, and, it being de
mons: rated that the repeal w orked great relief
to all branches of trade and commerce, the
repeal was, in 1854, made perpetual. Never
was legislation more cautious and conserva
tive—never was the effect of innovation so
carefully examined ; mid never was its benefit
more clearly demonstrated. The Bank of’ Eng
land, the largest institution k: own to us Ims
been releas and from the operation of the uuti
usury laws for about 20 years ; yet we know
that its rate of interest has always bet n ex
ceedingly low, when compared with the bauk
rates in this country. It was but the other
day that we received news, stating that the
bank of England had raised the rate of inter
est to G per cent., and the result was ahm.st a
p nic ; while, in this country, we think littl s
of paying double or treble that rate, in time
of pressure.
Anti usury laws can have no other effect
tnan that which we ascribe to them. They
must drive capital from the 1 an market, when
ever the legal rate is less than the current
worth of loans. Tliey must, therefore, has
ten, intensify and prolong every pressure in the
money market. They trammel commerce in
the times when she most needs liberty, they
injure, in like manner, every other interest and
work a great moral evil upon society. These
effects we propose to trace iu our next article
on the subject.
: Mr.Heis ry 31 . Fis Her.
llis political f riends and antecedents.
As Messrs Trippe and Foster, with several
other Southern Know Nothings, have been vot
ing for this gentlemen for several weeks for
s peaker, we propose to show who arc his poli
tical friends and supporters, and what are his
real sentiments. In doing this, we shall avail
oinselves of the testimony of Mr. Curuthers a
whig member to Congress from .Missouri. —
Our readers will recollect that these statements
were made upon the floor of Congress in the
presence ot Mr Fuller, and neither that gen
tlemun nor any ot his friends presumed to deny
a single word of * hat is here said; we will let
Mr. Curuthers speak for himself:
T desire to state at this time, and in the
present connexion, inorder that what 1 may
remarkfmay go out, withthe observations of my
colleague and friends; and t am proud to call
him such: the reasons why 1 have not, do not,
and never will, vote for the distinguished gen
tleman from Pennsylvania, [Mr. Homy M
Fuller,] i couldPnot Vwtetor Mr, Fuller; I be
lieve that we are allowed io call members by
their proper names before the oiganization, be
cause, while a member of the last Congress,
1 knew, and mvv remember, throughout the
Kausas-Nebraska fight, iu every stage of that
trying contest, his predecessor, the Hon. Hen
drick B Wr ght, stood fast by us, was one of
us, and sir, before 1 had cast a vote I found
that the distinguished gentleman from Penn
sylvania, [Fuller] had come here as his suc
cessor from a democratic District, and because
ol his triumph over Mr. Wright in conse
quence of his vote on the Kansas Nebraska
bill at the last session. I could not vote for
him then,tu tie lirst vote. When the first
vote was tukii g, I watuhed its progress, be
cause many of the gentlemen with whom I
was associated were disposed to vote for Mr.
Fuller. In that very first vote, when we were
casting our votes for the purpose of making up
a record, and. when fie had the entire House
from which to select, I saw that gentleman
throw his sufferage for Mr. Pennington, of Xew
Jersey. 1 remembered that at the last Con
gross Mr Pennington had voted to suspend
the rules with a view of affording Mr Elliot of
Massachusetts, an opportunity to introduce a
bill to repeal the fugitive slave law.
When Mr Fuller could take a northern or a
southern mau —when he could select a conser
vative man for whom to east his vote —1 saw
him vote for a man who had been in favor of
allowing the privilege >o introduce a bill to re
peal tiie fugitive slave law. 1 could not vote
for him. Air Pennington, on that vote, voted
for Mr Campbell, ol Oh o, a gentleman, by-thc
by, for whom 1 eutertain, as lie knows, the
most profound respect personally, but whom 1
regard as the embodiment of northern senti
ments on the si: rery question. Another vote
was had. Air Fuller voted tor Mr Pennington
and Air Pennington, on the third vote, voted
for Mr Banks of Aja.-saehusetts, who is no! on
ly the iinbouimcnt of free-soil democracy, but,
it seems,also oi northern Americanism and of
ultra northern republicanism. Air Pennington
voted for Air Banks upon that ballot, and Air
Fuller voted for Air Pennington after he had
voted for Air Banks, and so: sixteen times. I
sat m my seat and saw Alt’ Fuller, after Air
Pennington had voted for Mr Campbell and
Air Banks, east, nis vote sixteen times for Mr.
Pennington. Could 1 sir, as true to the prin
ciples of the Nebraska bi t, upon which I was
elected—as true to tiie (State to which 1 owe
allegiance, as true to the Constituents who sent
me here upon tiie Nebraska ismic - could I
vote lor a man with such a record as that ?
Again in another part of his speech AT
Earutiiers refers to Mr Fulle s position up
on the Nebraska bill, and says that gentleman
declared in answer to the enquiry ol Air B'age
ot New Fork, that lie was opposed to the Ne
braska bill, and was iu favor of the restora
tion of the Altssouii restriction, if it could be
done- We give his own woids:
He replied t iat lie was m favor ofthe resto
ration ol the Missouri restriction: that if he
had been in the last Cos gross, lie would have
l.i en opposed to the Kansas Nebraska bill,
and that lie was iu favor of restoring the Mis
souri restriction, f it could In- done; but as it
could not be done, as a practical statesman,
he was against all agitation.
u ith all proofs of black abolition as
sociations in their candidate before their eyes,
Messrs Foster and Trippe have cast their
votes for Henry Ai. Fuller, who accoiding to
the testimony of Mr Curuthers, another South
ern whig, is as vile an enemy to the South as
Banks himself. Here is a programme j Pen
nington, votes for Banks, Fuller votes fur I’eu
ningtoti, and E’o ter and Trippe vote for Ful
ler This is a true picture of the great Na
tional Know Nothing snake, whose head is iu
Massachusetts with his tail in Georgia.
fitsT Os the San wieh Island volcano, a
letter dated October 13 says :
Hawaii still burns Tue great furnace on
Manna Loa is in full blast. ELr sixty three
days the tuoltou flood has rolled down the
m untain without abatement. Tiie amount of
lava disgorged from this awful magazine is
enormous The iuuui stream, including all its
windings must be more than 50 miles long,
with an average breadth of 3 miles. This is
still flowing direct for our bay, and is supposed I
to be with u ten miles of Hilo Ii is c iting j
its way through the deep forest and dense
jungle in otirirear, uuless the great summits
ountuiu should efaso to disgorge.
J Tn
Death of 3i| H irp 3.
About seven miles from Hopkinsville, Ivy.
at the fork of the road, formerly stood an old
and thunder-riven oak, known, twenty years
ago, as the‘Lonesome Post Oak.’ In the ear
ly settlement of that country —half a century
ago—it was the only large tree to be seen for
many miles around, and hence its name. It
became the monument of one of the most des
perate single-handed combats known in the
prolific history of border adventure. Near it
the Heroic Davis slew Big Harpe.
1 lie brothers Harpe —eoutradistinctively
called Big and Little —were the terror of that
(then) thinly-settled region of country. Two
more execrable monsters never disgraced hu
manity They lived with two women as bad
as themselves, in a cave, about twenty miles
from the tree. Blood and massacre was
their delight ; they murdered without the ordi
nary inceii'.ive. It was their custom to sally
forth and murder, without distinction of age
or sex, whomsoever an object or a whim de
signaled as victim. As that rich and fertile
country gradually settled up, the people de
termined no longer to submit to their depreda
tions. Some fiesh outrage prompted a simul
taneous movement —men and dogs collected
and took the track.
They came to the two Harpes in a narrow
valley, about two miles from the tree, i hey
immediately remounted their horses and dash
ed off towards their cave. They soon separa
ted, in order to divide-their pursurers and im
prove their chance of escape. The pursuit
naturally divided, the major portion, however,
taking the track of Big Harpe.
Davis, who was mounted on a splendid
horse, not only led the pursuit for Big Harpe,
but left his friends far behind: About two
miles beyond the Lonesome Post Oak he came
up w ith his antagonist.
Here were two powerful men, armed with
rifles, butc. eiknives and tomahawks,alone, far
from help, and bent on death Davis well
knew that if overpowered he would certainly be
killed; and Harpe had determined to die rath
er than be taken alive. They passed and re
passed each other frequently making blows
without effect, each dreading to tire for fear
of missing, and thereby placing himself at the
mercy of his adversary. Finally tne horse of
Big Harpe fill and threw his rider, then rose
and galloped elf llarpe instantly spang to
his (eet and final at Dav s’ horse, which reared
and fell. They were now no more than ten feet
apart Harpe, whose sagaictv was equal to
his ferocious courage and villany, kept dodg
ing and springing Irorn side to side, approach
ing Davis, however, by imperceptible degrees
Davis, discovering that he would soon lose the
benefit of Ids ride, fired, but without effect
Each man now drew his knife, and they closed
iu mortal combat. Very soon they felt side by
s’de, but at this juncture a largo wolf dog be
longing to Davis, came to his master’s asi is
tance, and seized Harpe by the thr at. This
produced a diver.-ion in favor of Davis, who im
mediately recovered himself and stabbed his
opponent to the heart.
Davi’s friends soon came up, and removed
the body to the Lonesome Post Oak, at whose
roots it received coffinless burial.
Little Harpe escaped, went down the Mis
sissippi and joined the band of the notorious
Mason on Stack island. Soon affter Harpe
joined him, *!asosi attacked a llatboat at Cin
cinnati, and killed all the hands In conse
quence a large reward was offered for Mason
—to obtain which Little Harpe cut off his
head and carried it to iNatchez. Bat here he
was recognized as the murderer of Mr Winters,
was arrested, tried at Greenville, Miss, and
executed
•
Gen. Pierce and tne Deinecratic Par
ty.
hr. Keitt, of South Carolina made some
remarks in the House of Representatives a few
days since in which, while disclaiming any
technical connection with the Democratic party,
lie spoke as follows of that party, and the gen
tleman whom it placed in the Presidency.
The Union says he spoke with an effect which
will not suon be forgotten .
I pass now, sir, from this branch of the in- !
cmiry of my colleague. He asks nc. also, if
1 approve of the President’s message. I do
approve of it most emphatically It is a hold
wise and statesmanlike document, and should
commend itself to the sanction of the public
judgement. In this connection, too, I will
say that while I am opposed to the representa
tion of my State in the Democratic nominating
convention at l incinmiti, if President Pierce
is the nominee of the Democratic party, I will
cheerfully and cordial y support him, and I
doubt not my State will do so. 1 think he
has hurh claims upon the party ; and in this I
believe 1 but express the judgement of the peo
ple of South Carolina.
My object, vsr. Clerk, was to define my
position. I will mid, however, that I believe
the Democratic party is to day purer and truer
to the constitution than it has been for years.
It has passed through fire ami water, and
many of its impurities have been consumed or
washed away. It has the smell of fire upon its
garments, and while it moves on in the ketone
track of the founders of the Republic, I shall
bid it Godspeed. Many of the halt, and lams,
and blind, have fallen by the way; had this
fate overtaken all such, it would have been
better
The gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. !
CampbudJ says that the Democratic party
came into tins hull two years ago upon the
crested wave of popular power : and he asks
where it is now ! He says it is a feeble and
scanty baud, clinging to its broken al
tars. Why feeble and scanty ? Be
cause it has been much more friendly to the
South umUrner to the Constitution than either
of the other parties, flinging, says the gen
tleman, to its broken altars ! Why, sir, to
what else should it. cling While Abolition
fanaticism is sweeping over the free States,
prostrating the guarantees of the Constitution,
and tearing down the remaining pillars of our
republican edifice, where should the Democratic
1 party be but within the sacred precincts,
i lighting down the foe? While the la6t of
j Nothern domination and Free soil propagand
ism is driving the chariot of sectioual power
over the remains of the Constitution, to what
should the Democratic party cling but to those
altars reared by the founders of the republic *
if it be true to the Constitution, and steadsa 8 *
in the faith of the fathers, let it bind itself td
the. horns of the altar ; and as the angel de
scended to rescue the son of the patriarch even
from the uplifted knife, so may the genius of
tire land stoop down to rescue it from the
gleaming dagger of the fusion cohorts 1
[Communicated J
Twilight Musing*.
All nature is wrapped in a winding sheet of
ice. rees, shrubbery, house?, fences—all cov
ered with glittering crystal. The eaves are
beaotiiuily fringed with frozen rain drops,
f rrriing long pendent icicles- ’Tis a winter
scene in our own sunny south ; such an one as
would not shame the north. So clever an ar
tist is nature, she has decked herself in a no
th cm livery, such as she wears farther from
the sun
No. 39
1 This cold, white drapery saddens me. It
savors of death ; the death of all the flowers
of our sunny region. Coldly it falls on the
graves of our loved and lost ones ‘ but tho
’ grave is colder than the snow that covers the
foe The flowers will bloom again in the early
spring, but our lost human flowers will never’
’ again smile lovingly upon us. Our hearts are
desolate, we hear their loved tones no more as
they gleefully prattled around us once, in thor
’ days of their brief and loving sojourn. Sadly
1 we mourn them, they are ours no more.
How inexpressibly sad is the thought that
; death is the end of all human hopes and affec
’ lions. There are times when we feel that it is
terrible to see all die. The young, the beanti
’ ful, the gay and the gifted, all lie down in the
cold, grave, Alas ! that no human skill or
love can save from the jaws of the devouring,
insatiable monster, death. Life is brief and
short to us, even if permitted to live out the
span, as few are.
‘‘Few’ and short are the days of my life, and
full of trouble,” wrote the inspired poet, thou
sands of years ago, and if is as true now as
then. Yes, life is shadowed by the death
angel’s v>ing ever hovering over us, and he is
ever blighting’ earth’s children with his with
ering breath.
Vain is learning, science, fame, wit, youth,
beauty, wealth—worse than vanity ; fascina
ting array though they be, they are as naught
to the ruthless destroyer.
llow beautifnily, yet with a mournful beau
ty, is the indifference to death by the children
of the world, shown forth in the vision of
Mirza. They recklessly pass to and fro over
the dangerous bridge, set with innumerable’
trap-door, and pit-falls, through which the
careless, hurrying crowd ever and anon sink
into the deep dark ocean beneath. Emblem
of eternity, so fathomless and vast 1
But there arc green isles in that shoreles*
ocean, where the Spirit, restless here, may,
dwell ever more, reposing beside the river of
life flowing from the Throne of the Eternal/
beneath the tree whose fruit is immortality.
I'he souree of light shines there, radiant and
glorious,ever smiling with a beaming efful
gence on the blessed of the Lord.
I would like my grave to be at Bonaventurc,-
within the sound of the dark-blue sea. Tears
since I rmember to have visited it. Never;
will I forget the impression left on my mind
by the strange, unique beauty of those gfand
glorious old live oaks. The long, Vaulted
aisle of the forest, formed by the interwoven;
houghs of the trees, hung with the gray old
moss, looking as if the Spirits of Caves had
come forth’and taught the Nymphs of the
■ ood to decorate the green, living arch with
vegetable stalactites, so strangely fantastic iu
form is the gray drapery
Y“t it seems as if Natm-e had chosen it fig
mourning for the sleepers —resting beneath the
leafy canopy. The ever green foliage is em
blematic of Eternity,— the moss, of mourning
costume for the dead beneath,—and the winds,
arc ever sighing a sad, appropriate requiem.
I would fain lay me down at last in the ‘dim re
ligious light” of that venerable giove, which
‘•was God’s first temple,” and rest till awaken
ed by the ‘ Angel of the Apocalypse” sound
ing the Knell of Time. There the winds and
waves are ever singing shell strange, mysteri
ous music as is known only to the Spirits of the
Deep and the Forest. Nature’s Cemetery 1
truly none other was ever so beautiful !
There 1 could iest my way worn body iu
peaceful repose—soothed by the thought that
the unwritten Poetry of Nature was silently
speaking above my cold, insensate dust.
Though I have made my nest in the hills of
the South-west, yet memory still brings back
the sound of old Ocean’s roar, on th6’ long
strech of sandy beach —ever moaning With
solemn grandeur the sins and sorrows ofeiirth.
Indiana Ft.owF.rs;
Lumpkin, Ga , Jan. 13lh.
Death by Chloroform.
At Boston, on the sth iust. Miss Id a Mor
gan came to her death by chloroform, admin
istered at her request by Dr. Emory, a dentist
in Bromeld street., An investigation of the cir
cumstances showed that at the time of inhal
ing it she was in good bodily health. The chlo
roform was pure, and the usual quantity given
on a sponge. On application it did not pro luce
inccnsibility, and at the patient’s request, the
sponge was again placed to her nose. She
then went into a spasm, closed her teeth, and
breathed with difficulty. Water was sprinkl
ed on her face and she was placed upon a
lounge, breathing heavily, but soon her breath
ing became more easy. She never spoke after
being removed from the chair. A postmortem
examination was had, and a part of the ver.
diet of the Coroner’s inquest is,‘from the testi
mony and opinions of medical experts in this
case, the Jury feel compelled to caution the
public against the use of chloroform as being
dangerous anesthetic agent.’ The chloroform*
according to Dr. Jackson, had changed tho
blood ot the deceased to a substance as thin as
water.
Political InteligenCe.
Nf.w York, Jan. 12.
Ex-Gov. Bigler lias been elected United
States Senator from Pennsylvania.
The message of the Governor of New Jersy,
expresses the opinion that the people of the
States and territories should be allowed to de
cuff the question of slavery for themselves v ft
endorses Present Pierce’s position on Gen,-.
tral American question.
Advices from Wisconsin state, that Bashtovd
Republican, had taken the oath of office as
Governor, by the decision of the Supreme
Court. His opponent, Barstow, Democrat,
had previously been declared by the Legisla-*
ture as elected,
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Soft Shells facing the Music.
New Yourk, Jan. 12.
The Soft Shell Democratic Convention for
the appointment of delegates to Cincinnati,
have denounoed the Anti-Slavery agitation,
and unreservedly sustained the administration
of President Pierce.