IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.

Evening Star, Issue 3461, 26 March 1874, Page 2

IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.

. ... ! To the Editor,. \ . kiH,-yßeingthedebfcor evidently alluded to m your issue of March 19,1 beg that voa will thu if 1 had I would net fife hTtfin Tj? f myavlicitor, because the coats’ for which 1 am m prison are mo»t.uuiu»t,and extortionate, and ,on other croundpf ait. late Minister of Justice acknowledged & my case was a hard one, and tices promised; m ? ipatlce jncnthaV atth no reply has ever been returned to* j£ numerous petitions to WelUniiS ad&S? sr; ly r 8 > n wtor Qoiirt, of which no notice whatmrS®„ takeu. And why is this V W °® a opponent pubUo^imon^ that oiy uopTitoament wiU untU

. .aaoiropoTjfiM ■ . . am tboroughly- weaned-of life, and theu I will* inakAmy loxittff dm: this! wofldi 'and' l the gaol at oue and the samertime’. , Whfeu jjfiqr correspondent insinuates; tb at I would rather live on gaol halfrationSfdebtofa’ allowaifce) than at liberty with iullrrationßj he'is stating a ■ self-evident absurdity. /<.' However, yit re* mains'with him, Jwith'me'; for. i will never' yield my rightof action'by coins through the Court, nor even by.filingy and thereby give my unscrupulous - adversary a fresh opportunity Tor arrojitihg; rbe. Doing I hlß , wo " ld t be ? nl y gelding not to law, but to brute ‘ force < and' -tyranny f T and -C: ym fceVerfid yield, shottld i gaol .for twelve years, as did John Buuyan; when:he have, obtained hisrliherty just by Slavish most feel the then I will least show it • those boys who make most noise - wheh 'beiug beaten feel it no mere acutely than fiotlibse who take it more determinedly. - Many gentlemeu m Qpncdin knpw thorough truth of this statement, and that ! h'ave always beau willing and able ; tq pay my jifet,debts ; yet.not one of them {excepting my lawyer Jfif; sb«;)■mter’estedVhimr J? ald i Was'ruihed’ by opponbn’tj'atidnfust bmoreH'/commenced'action‘a^inst' f ?I nave therdforo hardly' any-ffifends, but-tost one or two m humble sity baa sufficiently proved that fact. ybawrill •he' &irid* ehoug&to insert _ . Lewis T. Stead. Dunedin Gaol. March 2A