Kentucky Gazette

[BY SPECIAL REQUEST.]

FOR THE GAZETTE.

Mr. Printer—There appears to be a necessity of answering the speeches of some of our candidates for the next Assembly, who have said that the replevin law made last session for the term of one and two years, is not contrary to our constitution. They may say the same, and make a replevin law or fifty years, which they have the same right to do as they had to make it for one. I would not suppose, that men who ask the suffrages of the people, would expose their ignorance and ambition before the public, without they think by their overbearing language, to keep the people ignorant of their rights; without they think and say of our constitution as some professors of the scriptures say, that God has not forbid infant baptism, though he has commanded his people to believe and be baptized; and tells them there is but one faith, one Lord, and one baptism. Our legislature last session, gave the medical party $50,000 to raise them up in idleness, luxury and pride, which can be of no use to the greater part of the community. If a man sends for a Doctor for himself or family—for one visit he has $50 to pay, and from that to $100, when he has taken none of their medicines, nor they done nothing for him.

I ask, what a small part of the community can have any benefit from them? There are not twenty for one that are able to employ them—though they have paid, or are to pay their taxes into the treasury for this $50,000. If it takes five pounds worth of property to pay one, it must go—the taxes must be paid, and that too in such bank notes as they choose. Our assembly, after chartering forty-odd Banks, would not take these notes for their services, neither would they be received in the treasury for taxes. It would be well for the community at large to consider their own interest, and their children's and their children's children after them, and consider who they vote for at the approaching election. It stands them in hand to vote for none of those for any office to represent them who voted for the forty-odd independent banks, or who voted for the one and two years replevy law, or the $50,000 to the medical party, as the public have no right to expect any justice from them. I ask our legislators again, where they got the authority from for breaking the people's contracts, and I desire they will give me answer.

ELI CLEVELAND.

A Lover of Truth and Justice.