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Public Debiors.-We cannot refrain from the expression of hope, that the bill for the relief of unfortunate public debtors, now before the House of Representatives, will be passed into a law before the adjournment of Congress. A class of the most intelligent and enterprsing men in the country, whose hands are tied up from re-

 engaging in business by debts which they owe to the Government, and which they can never

 pay, will be set at liberty by the bilinquestlon, and denabled again to exert theirsdll, talents and

 experience, for their own benefit, and to the

 great advantage of the country. The Govern

 ment cannot possibly expect to realize a cent

 from citizens whose property has all been swept away by the misfortunes of trade. the tiuctua-

 tions in the foreign and home markets, and the

 variabfeness and uncertainty of our commercial Legislation. We cannot conceive one sol itary motive, of substantial nature, to pre- vent the immediate adoption of a measure for the relief of individuals who have been heretofore among the most useful and val uable of our feliow-citizens. Humanity and sound policyequalIy dictate their iiberationirom ttllc thraidom Of hopeless debt. The Govern ment will lose nothing by it, while the country

 nearly extnguished: the Treasury is full; and

 tiiiS ID HO titilt lOf litC Ol

 free and magnanimous Republic to play the part of Shylock towards portion of its citizens

 whose disasters were partly occasioned by its own perpetually changing commercial policy

 By way of illustrating the truth of thesesugges-

 tions, we state fact which has lately come to our knowledge: single house in Philadelphia

 lost upwards of one hundred thousand dollars,

 by the mere propostionin Congress, in the year

 1926, to reduce the duties upon teas! This pro position had the instantaneous effect of redu-

 cing green teas ten cents on the pound, and five cents on black teas. Surely, when congress

 thussees the disastrous tendency of theirownact, tho doubt intended in their inception for the public good,) they willperceive thatthose who have suffered from them have strong claimup- on their lberality and indulgence.--.tat Mtel.

 ssNo law" observes the New York Standard, i, @would be considered more unjust, than one which should tie up the hands of the mechanic, or even deprive him of the use of his tools; and yet merchants who have, some of them, for al quartcrofaccntury, contributed to fill the Trea- sury coiicrs, and toPromote the great agricul- 