New-York daily tribune., 1843-04-28

chosen to pursue a similar course, though urged
TO receive and appropriate II to public uses by
leading member Of their own party; and thus the
money still lies In the Bank. to the advantage and
benefit of that institution. while the State IS pay
ing an immense amount OF interest, and has actu-
ally borrowed more money on interest while r.
iusing to receive her own money which Is paying
her no interest The effect OF this course, II
persisted in. will be TO give TO Bank over 500
900. while our State works rot unfinished for want
as is pretended OF means 10 complete them, ana
the people are taxed S65O,GO0 per annum TO pay
interest on existing debts. Can folly or faction
90 beyond this What is nulllticaton, II this IS
not
But the most culpable feature OF this iactlous
proceeding remains to be exhibited lhis DIS
tribution Act was we'll known to be 4 measure
of wise and necessary precaution against the
schemes necessarily agitated with the deliberate
purpose of wrestling from the Old States all their
ripht and interest in the Public Lands. The
States which ceded all the lands originally owned
BY the Union, with the most solemn stpulatonS
that no disposition should ever be made OF 1t by
which they should not, equally with all others be
bcnefited-bv whose treasure and spol,aed COM
mercc the vast region Of Louisiana was pur-
chascd-hcsc are to be deprived OF all interest IN
or benefit from these lands whatsoever. Such IS
the object such the inevitable effect, oi thc
schemes of Graduation, Ccsson, &c. which nave
been pressed upon and almost through congress ov
Ncssrs. Benton, Calhoun and an buren, In per-
feet accordance with the spirit and scope OF ,lieSe
rnanruvrcs The Legislature of Illinois called mas
a convention o.! the new States tor the avoWcu
purpose of asserting and enforcing the prihclPc
that all the unappropriated lands within any state
belong of right 10 that State, and shall be hence-
forth acknowledged 50 to belong, IN direct deh-
ance Of the provisions of the compact under
which each new State has been admitted INTO tie
Union. This scheme is to be pressed IN connec-
ton with the next Presidential Election and
plant Candidate for President be found who
will bargain away the Public Lands for West
crn Electoral Votes. You know. fellow
zcns who this will NOT be = Into this scheme
for robbng the Old States of Their just and equal
rights in the Public Domain, Newly ork Is vlrtu-
ally cnsnared; her giant weight is cast INTO the
scale of her plunderers the breaking down OF
the barrier around her right, which the direct and
papablc interest of all the States IN the Dlstrlbu
tlop had created, will be the signal for ITS utter
overthrow Either the Land Distribution must
be restored or the Lands will be lost within the
next five years. Frecmen OF Newly ork we So
licit your judgement on this question, as OF men
VINO are capaDlc OIL lDOhlllg iIle iiiClt
tance of $4,000, to the vital and lasting inter
ests which are therein involved. This is no qucs
ton, as is pertinaciously asserted whether you
will take money from your Federal Treasury to
repIenish those of your States the real issue is
Shall the proceeds of the Public Lands be utter
ly lost to the Old States 2" and the very men who
now clamor loudest against the abstraction of the
Land Fund from the Federal Treasury are on rec
ord as equally camorous but Yesterday, that the
Public Lands ought not 10 be source or revenne
at ali
From the great questions Of public policy m
volved in the legislation of the past winter, we
pass TO the still greater and more momentous
questions mmincntly involving the personal lib
crty and safety of every citzen-thc right OF
every freeman 10 the control of his own limbs
and sinews. To this right the action of the ma
iority has evinced the most deadly and unceasing
hostility. That action is avowedly based on the
third clause of Sec. ,, Art.v Of the Federal Con
slitution, which ordans that
No ielson held 10 service labor State under the
thereof another, shall m consequence "i
or labor but shlll BE- delivered uy dam Of the party
whom such service or labor may be due
This clause unrcpealed, unmodltied, Is of course
a paramount and binding law of the land, which
every State and It's citizens are bound 10 obey.
b'it does 'ioi common seiSe anu
require something more '''a' ie'' cum, u se.
wee 10 JUSTLY ''ic ui"gS'nS o' m u" ii'o"e',''Ne
man rom freedom mo slavery Las 1t .io' 'et''
universally understood ana req"lfeu' tna' ',ic
claim should rest upon and be substantiated by
conclusive prootS So has ever held till now
the State of New \ ork and accordingly the
person seized slave, but asserting his free
DOM has uniformly been allowed to bring HIM
L -.
self and his alledged owners before State trlbu,
nal upon VIII o' """e"S corpus N"orus Sacf9o
10 lhc ear oi ireellleh' OF oi "oHth' ffPie9t"H"o