Grand’Anse. Marion aîné recalls that its people, in arms, demanded the abolition of the office of bailiffs.

Councillor Marion aîné replied to Councillor C. Ardouin, and ended as follows: “If you would now consider the question from political points of view, how many reasons would not offer themselves to your judgment for discrediting the law of 1834? In a moment like this, when the passions have scarcely spent themselves, when minds still keep a remnant of the leaven of that fermentation which has been so fatal, would it be wise and prudent to re-establish this imprisonment for debt which has done so much harm, this imprisonment for debt which pitilessly put debtors at the mercy of creditors; and against which a whole population in arms lately protested? Indeed, does no one remember that one of the first demands of the people of the Grand’Anse and of other places in the South, when they took up arms, was the abolition of the office of the bailiffs, thus taking the effect for the cause?