Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-08-08

it., no forty millions Of dollars will coyefsll
the expense cntaIied on u by annexation.
And, when all is accomplished, who "pocs
kets the stakes!' Ay, whol
This is point Of view which has been
strdlously avoided by the aDnexationists.
They tell us enough OF the fertility the
beauty, the magnitude Of Texas, but how
thoroughly this fertility, beauty and mag-
nGcence ara rcnopo zedby e few shrpwd
and schening land .jobbers, they DO not say,
Our own conviction is that the ti:Ie Of morP
than hail the good land actually within ,hs
dominion Of Texas is now held by iess than
a hundred persons, many-of whom have
Teen the most 2ralous, untrlng, uHscru'
puIous champions Of annexation, These
will te enriched beyond ca,cu'sl'oA by
transferring their debt, deiences, &c. &c to
our shoulder. but it is every way unjust,
The land io5Jers Of Texas should he tax
ed to pay tie debt, fight out the quarres
and pay and pension off the army and ma.
" Of Texas. It is not tight that the own
cIs Ly ipgerdemajn Of millions OF fertile a.
cres should put their burthens off upon our
DeoDip, OF whom tWo-thirds al least have
not an acre. The way this has been acgui-
red, and il certain to le used, If no, Lro-
ken up inlosms'l parcels by stringent tax.
alton, will lead to ieudaIj-n and ant.rent-
ism within half 2 century. Let il be cov.
nred a, an esrIy day by an ignorant Euro.
pean rpaeanlry, rady TO sign any leases
which 10 not exact present payment, end
heir children will be miring Heidprherg
J / T.. TBa..a al
cess before the century runs out,
The more W reflect OH the so"iai histo-
ry and condition Of the hfmau family the
sgonger grows our coHvictiO1 that there
should be some limit to lhr u-h' Of any one
human being to monopoze the soil which
God has made for the s,lstrnance OF the
race. The unecualed miseries of The IA
boring classes Of Great Britain spring pri-
MARTY FROM the ccnfscatiUn Of the soil by
he Norman congueror, and its division d.
mong his seven hundred iree-Jooting chief
| lans, with the similar conquest and Confs-
cation Of Ireland, and the laws of primo
geniiure and entail by which estates accu-
mulate rather than fall in peices. At pres
enl, Ro.h-ch ID or Marquis Of Wesimin.
ster might easily djspossess a hundred thou.
sand human beings Of any chance to earn
meal Or shelter their heads. We have
lately seen Marquis of Londordrrry and
Duke Of Sutherland depo pulaung, or
threatening to dcpopuiate, whole nejghbor.
hoods # not counties on some consdera.
ton Of individual advantage. That the
tenants have any rights in the premises,
except the right TO starve when they can
get nothing to eat, does not seem to enter
the brain OF hereditary iordiing. Nor is
he, in large view, w0se than his neigh.
bors. He is doing what ha likes wit, his
own" and has never been taught to docth.
arwse. The wrong is not in the men but
| in the system: and so long as this prevails
so long as the few own every thing, and
! the many are not secured even a chance
| 70 prodUre anything, save at the pleasure
| Of the men OF milliOns--so long as any zone
may rghtiul'y devote miles square of the
bast soil to his park and pleasure-grounds
while thousands around him cannot obtain
bare acre on which to grow the potatoes
which would ward off starvation--so long
as rrimogeniture and similar institutions
are constantly pprpetuating and aggrava-
ting these nIonstrous sInequaIties--we have
no faith that any mere administrative re-
form, such as free corn, free sugar, or any
thing else of the kind, can essentially
mend the matter.
Such horrible results as have been
wrought OH in Great Britain are not like
" to be fully raralleled here, while ournsti.
tutions and laws remain unchanged, hut a
broad basis for them is laid in Texas BY
the system under which the lands Of that
rorion have Jecame private property
The egg will hatch in time.