The poor man has not always a security to produce, even in a civil cause; and if he is obliged to wait for justice in prison, he is speedily reduced to distress.

The wealthy individual, on the contrary, always escapes imprisonment in civil causes; nay, more, he may readily elude the punishment which awaits him for a delinquency by breaking his bail.

So that all the penalties of the law are, for him, reducible to fines.

*n Nothing can be more aristocratic than this system of legislation.

Yet in America it is the poor who make the law, and they usually reserve the greatest social advantages to themselves.