Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-06-25

the subject which he has most carefully examlned' does it not furnish evidence that there may be error in those positions which assumed with less care
 We therefore think that we have shown that the Legislature have an undsputed right to grant any species of relief that they might think proper and that the Trustees either Agents a corporate body (if it suit the gentlemen better,) are fully and completely authorized blythe statutes quoted to make any disposition ofthe lands that they might think ad visable. These lands may be forfeited and in eff feet as much subject to be disposed of by the Trustees those which had not been sold This was comprehended by majority of the Trustees if not by the minority. Their authority is full and complete.
 We shall proceed to the examination of the second point, to witt the enpedency of granting Relief
 The whole tenor of the law under which the high priced lands sold, proves clearly, that the Le- gsature considered the land ample security for the balance due after receiving the advanced payment, from $4 p to $6 per acre. Under any circumstan- ces, except the most unprecedented that calculation would have been surely correct; but peculiar combi nation of circumstances has already happened, which proves that they deceived, and we who have titled the land, havebee still more deceived Butun- der this belief they sold the lands upon the following conditions and terms. Public auction minimum se- venteen dollars per acre-One fourth in advance, Is Tn one and two years, with interest from the day of sale, the remaining half at the expiration of eight years, with interest from the payment of the third nstalment, payable annually y,-conditioned that if the principal or interest were not punctually paid, that the land should be absolutely forteited, unless suit be commenced on the bond within, three months afterit becomes due Ifthis writ should be returned 'Non est inventus," the land is forfeited If it be executed and the claim prosecuted to judgement and Fl Ia returned, "Nua bono," the land is forfeited At the expiration of eight years and before the pay ment of the last half the purchase may be converted into lease for 99 years, by the annual payment of the interest on the sum due at the tme which if not pald on the issuance of distrngas the land is for teited The certificate of purchase and the lease are assignable to solvent or nsolvent men, as may best suit the purchasers The happening of either these events can be easily effected if they are forced final y to pursue that course. The effect of forfeiture IS resembling of the whole contract, as far as it is not executed The sums due on the lands are three or four times their value and five are driven 10 the last extremely atoreiture and abandonment will be the result A calculation of the consequences can not fairly be made. Men when excited by denial of what they think to be just. often do what they would not in calmer moments.
 It IS m the power of the purchasers iftheir claims to relief should be passed by in silence to leave the land the property ofthe State, in condition almost worthless.
 Their improvements have been placed there by themselves, and they may take the liberty of placing them elsewhere. What then can be realized on these lands in state of exhaustion without timber without fence to enclose it, without house of any kind or description? The means of replacing those improvements are now extremely limited and the value of the land in this condition can scarcely be | fxed but one thing is certain that not more fhan one third or one fourth of the due could be obtained on resale. We design to act differently our homes are dear to us. and we wish to retain them, as we have once paid for them and improve them. Ifforced by oppression to abandon them, we shall consider all moral obligations to pay or to pre- serve the land at an end. We are decidedly friend ly tn fha nff f that our oppression cannot contribute any thing to its ultimate success. The fund that will be realized without this will be amply sufficient to give all the advantages it could possibly gain by the additional sum of few thousand dollars. It might be- and this the only effect that it would have, grant the re- lief we ask, that there might not be quite as many fine dwellings in the town of Tuscaloosa, that there might not be surplus sufficient to spend $2O, ,OOO for books for Tuscaloosa and $ 10 000 for chemical apparatus; many thousand dollars for fine carriage houses negroes, horses, and snake catchers tSc with $100,O00 in Bank. This money then is not needed 10 promote the cause of science. Is it right to ruin few to promote extravagances like this? Is is not therefore clear that instead of the Ordinance passed in April, calling forth the opposition of those who wish to enlarge the fund, that it should have recev- ed their cordial appreciation, precedent that might avail them much
 The time ofcredit has expired on all the land sold Tn 1893, and fOreitnreS sub bmodo, have already com menced which must be succeeded by a removal of persons andpropery without the timely interference of your Agents in their Legislative capacity. We think we have shown the power ofthe Legis- lature and Trustees to grant the Relief sought and also its expediency, we shall conclude by few re. marks on the third9oint.
 | The hucuating price of the staple commodity of the country, together with the whole system of relief which has been adopted by the State directly and the United States, from their memorials from time to time, have rendered us entirely unable to comply with our contracts. We cannot pay the principal and enormous interest which have accumulaed- The memorials to Congress, and the system adopted by the Legislature matters of record and not ne cessary to be repeated here Suffice it to say that the same inducements which caused others to give to the General Government from $5 to $50 per acre for which they are now receiving patents, wherever $1 25 has been paid, influenced us in the purchases which we have madc and by the means we hope to be placed in better condition than we are The tendency of the whole system has been directly to reduce the price of our lands. We have therefore sustained an immediate and direct loss by the Acts of the Legislature over which we could have no con- trol. We feel confident that generous community will not suffer any class of citizens sustain nures without reparation. We had right to expect Branch of this seminary oflearning in the Northern part of the State, and an appropriation of 33 000 in it's erection, tue law at the time of the first sales, and constituted an nducement to purchase- In this the Legislature have failed to comply, much to our injury.
 We court an investigation of the whole subject and earnestly desire that the facts may be known We feel certain that justice sustains our claims to protection and relief. False representations have been sent abroad to poison the public mind; and we design by this publication, only to place some of the
 facts before the community, in their true colors, and ask from them only what they have received from others. THE UNIVERSITY DEBTORS. | ---------
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