New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-23
Texns and I.and-JObbing.

Of the Texas conspiracy, from the hrs' planning oi
Slavery in that gon after it, express abolition D!
Mexico down TO the present moment win espec'a'
reference 10 the means employed 10 win over NM
enal Derson- ia the States 10 the cause OF Texan IN
dependence and ultimately TO that Of Annexation.
We do not think proper to use these al present our
warfare j. not with individuals bu; with evil prnci-
ples--with rapacity. wickcdness and oppression
with slavery wearing the cloak OF Liberty ana hoo-
bery and Pcridy disappearing the names OF JUSTICE
and National Honor But next to our hatred 70
slavery foully imposed the wide exien, Of IeNas
n defiance NJ the laws alike Of God and Man IL our
oatbipe Of the system of Land Monopoly and JOB
bing which has been one Of the mainspnngss 81 me
exas loiaqitv from the beginning-whlch mas
boogLt vena Editors and Politicians 10 scores ana
transformed the vehement cOntemners Of the enIre
yIsny TO day into its most devoted champions and
aroloois,s 10 morrow We do not propose to 60 into
INV crcums,an,ia expose Of it, deiails-it - with
the principle we deal, and that we shall resist ever
more
Just look at the outline Of the case Slavery and
Land Robbery were the two corner stones Of the
Texan revolt from Mexico. Our settlers IN Texas
wasted slavery. which the laws Of Mexico forbade
anffhcy wanted the lands, which Mexico withheld
or lad granted to others. These were the real IN
citemcnts TO the rebellion. though change IN me
government Of Mexico afforded the preiext &C
cordingiy two OF the first important acts oil inoe
pcudcnt Texas were the lcgalization OF slavery
(Which bad previously been maintained oy force III
defiance Of law and the multiplying OF all the Lana
,rcs Granted by Mexico, except so far "a they ran
in f,yor of uersons engaged in the rebellion. THIS
latter Wa an act Of gross Reputation, contrary TO
rublc faith and the usages OF civilized nations
which regard the contracts of a subverted govern
men, a. binding upon that which by revolution sup
plants H. Whether this multiplying clause in the Con
,,i,niion of Texas will be Overruled after Anncxa
ton by our Supreme Court, as we asserted few
,ays since, we find disputed good lawyers consid
crng rha, our Courts will be obliged TO respect the
nets Of Texas while an independent power, no mat
ter how niquiious in their character. But in truth
the question ia of little practical moment II the
Mexican grants are sustained set Of Spectators
secure most Of the valuable wild lands OF Texas If
they are declared null another set the winners
In either case there are are next TO no Pablo Lands
ia Texas and if we ever get any we must wresi |
them from The warke Camanchcs or from Mexico
In all that has ever constituted independent Texas.
we are confident there are not Public Lands enough
To INV ten cents ON dollar of the actual Debt OF
Texas aud the Just though manipulated claims on
her Treasury The case therefore, stands thus
Annexation being consummaied the People OF the
United States must fight Mexico into assent to 1t and
10 a most unjust, unpausiblc extension OF the limits
of Texas to the Rio del Norc or beyond; then we
mus, fight the Camanchcs and other warikc tribes
for nearly all the Public Lands we shall get that are
worth having which will cost US ten times what
they can ever be sold for The North must pay two
thirds the expense OF all this, to increase the area
and the power of Southern Slavery. Then there is
the Debt of Texas-it may bc Twenty or Forty,
but cannot be- less ;lan Ten Millions-which Polk
has virtually agreed 10 pay, though Congress eX-
pres@lv stipulated that we should not pay it, The
Army and Navy Of Texas are iii arrears for pay, no
man can guess how much and Mr.. Donelson has
further agreed TO pay all the expenses OF Annexa
ton Congress Convention, &c. Depend on H.
these will moi bc scrimped when | ncc Sam foois
the bill Depend on it no Forty Millions OF Dollars
will cover all the expense cntailed on us by Annex
alton And. when all is accomplished, who "pock-
PTS the stakes l'-Ay, who
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avoided by the Annex atonisis. They tell US enough
of the fertility the beauty. the magnitude of Texas
but how thoroughly this fertility, beauty and mag
nifccncc are monopozcd by a few shrewd and
schcming land -iobbcrs they do not say. Our own
conviction is that the title o. more than half the good
land actually within the dominion of Texas is now
held by hess than a hundred persons many of whom
have been the mos, jealous nniirng, INSCRIPTIONS
champions ol Annexation These will be enriched
beyond ejaculation by transferring their Debt, de
fences sc. &c. to shoulders, but il is every way
unjust, The land obbcrs of Texas should be taxed
10 pay the debt fight out the quarres and pay and
pension OIL the Army and Navy OF Texas 1t is not
right tina, the owners by lcgcrdcman of millions of
fertile should pu, their burthcns off upon our
people Of whom two thirds at least have not an acre
The way this land has been acquired and is certain
10 bc used if not broken up into small parcels 10y
stringent taxation. will lead To Feudasm and Anti
Rcnlism within half a century Let ii be covered
At an early day by an ignorant European peasantry,
ready to sign any leases which do not exact present
payment and their children will be raising Helder
ber; airs and Indian obstruction to legal process
before the century runs out
The more We reflect on the Social history and con
liton of the Human Family, the stronger grows our
conviction that there should be some limit TO the
ieh, Of any one human being to monopolizc the Soil
which God has made for the sustcnancc of the Race
The uncqualed miscrics of the Laborine Glasses OF
treat Britain spring primarily from the ooniscaiion
4 the Soil by the Norman Conqueror, and ts division
mong his seven hundred frcebooting chicains
,,h the similar conquest and coniiscaton OF Ireland
md the laws Of primoseniurc and Entail BY which
states accumulate rather than fall in pieces At
resent a Roihschild or Marquis of Westminster
nigh, easily disposscss hundred thousand human
cines of any chance to meal or shelter their
caas We have lately seen Marquis OF London.
cry and a Duke of Sutherland deliberately depo
opulaiing. or threatening TO depopulaic whole
eighboThoods if not Counties some consideration
individual advantage. That the tenants have any
shss in the premises, except the nigh, to s,arve
then they can sc, nothing TO eat, does no, seem TO
inter- the brain OF hereditary lording. Nor is he,
, a large view worse than his ncishbors He IS