A Mail Bag Of 1775
ie not benateü on strict pany principies? The qucstions which come befbre the Courts areoftpn momenlous, involving the dearest righls of men, and millions of property. Is il (o besupposcd that those whose inlerestsare Ib be ihus perilled w)l have no concern about the individuáis who are lo decide upon them? Will they not ratherbeon thealer, strainingevcry nerve to secure the election of that candidate whose decisión wil] be favorable to thcin? Suppose wo had a general Banking Law, ns in Ohio, under which all the banking capital of the State was in operation, through some 30 or 40 banks. Suppose there was a clause in this law which was thought by some would make the private property of the stockholders of all the Banks lioble for the debts of the Corporations, and that this construetion of the Jaw was to be detennined, without the possibility of nppeal, by Jiidges aboiit to be elected. By the decisión, properly amountingto millions of dollars might be H instantly madeliable for the debts of the n Banks, or it might be declared bevond the su reach of the creditori?. Onr Imnu. r -1
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