The Daily Herald

Attachment Law.-We have seen no movement in the present Legislature in regard to the modification or repeal of this odious feature of our civil code. We trust it is not much longer to hold its station in our statute book, and that a Whig Legislature will have the honor to give it the coup de grace. The idea that a man's property may be distrained upon a mere suspicion of debt,-his house entered, his family distressed, his furniture seized, upon the nominal plea of constructive damages, as in cases of slander, and, worse than all, that his business and his credit may be destroyed in a moment by the vindictive process of an attaching creditor, either for the gratification of malice or cupidity, are principles that ought not to be recognized in a free country,--nor do we know that such principles are recognized in any State but ours. Besides this, there is the manifest injustice of the preferred, the first attaching creditor,-holding forth, as it were, a reward for iniquity and a premium for baseness. We hope there is some member of the Legislature who will have the spirit to take up this subject and carry it through,-and he may be assured he will receive the warm and lasting gratitude of his constituents- the people.