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sue niggardly, penurious ard timd policy ve.r. pass away, and tue resources of Arkansas await any lopement under the superior energy and broader 1' of another generation. F'Aey

 Anetief matter Of uneqaai1ed importance in ie i the laws of this State should be arranged and With a set ef statutes, many of them contradc,or more of them absurd--and all of them badly dr,a55 depending upon the uncertain, obscure and copA.t; principles of the law, incorporated in fba Is into our law, State so much needs thoreugb p l slon, digest and arrangement of all her laws and , principles, as Arkansas We have mass of ststp7ea drawn by men both n Missouri and here not s cti skilled i'll common language to make themselves dis,; y and definitely understood, and still less conver

 with the technical and professional language of b

 These statutes are of course vague, uncertain and nd finite. Many Of them which were intended in bo nsi verbatim from the English statutes as for examnla @ statute of Frauds, mperfectly copied and n;.s omissions important and fatal as to be utterly so less and void. And, to a they have been rapa together into book, mserably arranged and ,vors deXed, glaring memento of inposture and imbecl;t It should always be recollected that law is sc;ono' and that when oi no law knowledge though of goa common sense, attempt to alter and repair it to suit ba own noons-Wien they try to better the rules of nra tce and pleadlng the of proceedings in chac6r and common laW-and to remove and abolish tecbn;ca' ties and forms, they always end by making the matta7 worse instead of better. They like men who med9s with steam engine in full operation, without knowing the principles which it Is constructed

 The Legislature should select three lawyers of comna tent skill and ability and entrust them with the power of revising the laws of the State and framing consistent and symmetrical code of law and practce--boh civil and cflmnato be laid before the Legislature at their next session for their adopton These men will have before them the whole body of English law the civil code ot Lousana the reVIsed codes of New York and Massachusettsand may form for us code surpassed bv none III the world. The revised code of New York was formed in this Way-the civil code of Louisiana was compiled by ivingston-and these examples have been attended with such success as may we'll induce us to emu late them.