New-York daily tribune., 1842-07-21
The Land Question.

The Land Question.
The Portland Eastern Arrus co-troverts the
jea that the Land Distribution will seeYre to th'
Od States the ust share oi the Proceeds OF the
Public Lands ly the following naked assertions;
In III. 6rs, place ih--e is MT the slightest danger that
'he interested IN vei- or tie gii q thr Plus
i'nls 70 ihe >,aie. ln "...,L .hsy - VII VII - Rr
supfosng ihey should he abe % Obtain nlalony w
could vote Tie whole to IN .nelve' Jcs a. easily unuel
distribution set a. hsy cOsdH iAe proceeds were uo"'H-
into III National Treasury
Now, We oppose 10 these assertions recorded
far,, Il Is fact dat many Member. Of Congress
from the Old State. have voted to grddaa'e the
price Of the Public Lands down in twenty-five years
to nothing. along with the loesest Presumption
LAVE. which would have practically DESTROYED the
interest Of the Old State. in the Lands. Here Is
the danger not that those Who risa TO desFoll tine
Old States will be strong enough Of themselves TO
do So but that they viii purchase aid by log-roil-
ing or Presidential votes, they haze done ere
now And ve arc confident that the NsS-Ens-
and Members who thus voted to despoh New
England would never have done 50 If the money
had been directly coming home TO their eonstiin-
ent- Is not this at the least. extremely Probable
II WY not keep The Tariff fueHioH d.'-
| fiuct from the Land Distribution ? inquire the
insidious enemies Of Protection to American La
Dor Sirs. your o,rn men formed and foreed TIE
connections, against the earnest protest and united
vote Of the friends of Protection. No friend OF
| Protection or the Land Distribution ever wished
the two united but it was done against their reso-
| lutte efforts by a coalition of the Free Trade and
Loco-t oco Members Of Congress, expressly ap-
proved by John Tyler. All We are doing now Is
to get the two separated. Yet the Al
bany Argus, Troy junto, and all the insidious enc
mics of Protection are denouncing the Wings for
5leadiaq the .ro qnestions'
MAssAcHusErTs-Sp Speciai E!ec'ion.-An Elec
tion was held in the Ninth Congress sional District
on Monday for a Member OF Congress in place Of
| Hon. William s. Hastings, deceased. The result
is probably no choice, great number of the
Wigs. disliking Mr.. Goodrich, having cast their
votes for Mr. William Jackson, who is sound
| Wing on most questions, but who was proposed
| by the Abolitonists W. have the vote of 10
towns. which add up as follows:
For Samuel G. Goodrich, Irregular Whig). $50
Ezra Wilkinson, (Lsco-FOcO) ---.--. |, 4O2
William Jack son, (Whig Abol.) .----. $40
Scattering - 49, -----. 81
PENNsYLvANIa-Th Apporiionmeut stil lin
gers in the Legislature. Mr.. Clark of Dauphlu
submitted TO the House q Compromise bill on
Monday, which was considered by sections, ap-
| proved and passed two readings but, on the vote
TO order the bill TO a third reading, the Speaker
announced the discovery Just made by him that 1t
would give the Wings ten Of the twcnty.four Dis
tr.cts and leave hree doubiisl-which he would
| ever agree to. So the bill vas knocked in t4e
nead--jl to 81.
| The bill SO killed appears TO have been very
fair one and not so favorable to the Wings the
| Speaker stated The only Counties it divides are
| Philadelphia, Lancaster. Somerset and Allegha-
ny-a but Somerset too large for single Districts.
We now doubt whether any will be agreed on.
The ILLINOIS BOUNDARY QsEsrIoN.-The
| Commissioners to locate the lands granted by the
| United States TO Illinois having ma lie tho prnci-
,al part OF their selections north of the line drawn
| dnc vest from the ,ourherly bend Of Lake Mchi-
gan, claimed by WISCONSIN her boundary by tie
ordnance of 1857, Gov. Doty Of Wisconsin has
.ont letter to Gov. Carlin Of Illinois, notifying
bin to refrain from selecting public lands for the
u,e of that State within the territory claimed b.
| Wiskonsen.
o. The venerable NoAH WER.rEE delivered a
discourse at Amherst July ith, upon the his
rorv of Political Parties since the comrerccmen.
Of tie Government. We hope it wi!l be published
| u Col. JAMES P. Butt. one Of the most PROM
lsent and energetic citizens of Northern Pennsyl-
vania died at Towanda, Bradford county, on
the 9TH.
70 Hon PHILASpER STEPHENS, formerly a
Member of Congress, died at Sprngvllle, Sus-
quehanna county, Pa on the 9Th, aged 81 years.
~ Mr.. VAS BuREN arrived at Albany on Tues