New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-31
THE TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 81, ls45.


Admit the h Ourlerlsn Wlthout e'luthct- ih
. Infdehiy" is pure maligniiy and calurnny The
Editor of The Tribune has never been any thin
else than believer in the Christian Religion, anc
has for many years been a member Of Christai
Church He never wrote or uttered syllable u
favor Of Infdeliiy. Bot truth ia lost on the h
prcas which can never forgive Us the lnhdelity
of circulating good many more copies, Daily ard
Weekly than are taken Of tia, paper.
Asto Agrariani-u." we have not a syllable to
retrsct nor apologize for. We have never Yet IN.
coIca,ed any doctrine 80 'Agrarian the La"
given through Moses or the practice Of the earl
Chrisiiass. Yet we have said. and we do most IN
doobtingly believe, that there should be some LINN
~ the legal right Of man 10 acquire exclusive
possession of the Soil from which the sustcnance Of
all mus, be derived We said this with reference
TO the enormous Land jobbng OF Texas-it was tha
which Immediately prompted the remark-but W.
have never thought Of confnng the application Of
the principle to tia, country. Indeed. we believe
the seeds of mischief are all there and are SURE
10 yield their proper harvest Of slavery serdom. and
the dest'unon. ignorance and degradation Of tbs
masses much like what now exists in England d.
consequence Of the gigantic land robbery perpc
ua,cd by William the Conqueror in behalf Of bi'
chief followers or Barons. and the laws enacted II
sustain their monopoly. The principle we evolved
We intended for application here and every where
We say now, Take from no man that to when IL
has acquired legal title, whether in Texas or any
where else: bat let us take that the Land
which yet remain PuJfc Property shall not be alien
a,ed TO private possession and in immense tract
and ON easy terms II this il Agrarlanism' make
the most of il We have urged IT, in principle io'
wears in opposition 10 the various schemes OF alien
stipg the Public Lands by Graduation. loose Pre-.
emptjou. &c We have always held Benton's plan
of cutting down the price OF the Public Lands 10
twenty five cents an acre in effect a scheme 10
rob posteriiy and cover the country with great ma
nors or lordships 10 be ultimately titled by an abjeci
tcnantrv. We have been aver-e TO every device
for cutting down the price Of the Public Lands Oh
lust this ground We shall not abandon it now
even though it be nicknarned Agrarianism.
The Express worries through half a column t,
show in the face OF our positive denial that we chal
Ienge the validity Of subsistng titles to great trac
of land. We cannot allow that the Express know,
our meaning better than we do. or has any clearer
right We admit and insist the legal right Of th'
owner of wild lands to keep them uninhabi,ed foi
ever; bat we do not consider II morally right tha
he should do so, when land becomes scarce and sub
sstence for the landless scanty and precarious
What we desire and plead for is greater caution II
future in transferring TO private ownership land
which now belong TO the whole People Yet tn
Express viii have ii that we mean what II wants
US to mean, and represents us as holding
"That man has no right 10 do what he will with HI,
own lands and devote II extensively 10 park pleasure
ground while thousands around hun cannot obtain 81
acre mat bread and enough Of IT, obscrve but an acre
OF this land. In Other words il this lOrding does
give HIM and he is unjust and wthhods Uhaf IS The pro
psrfy Of ms poorer n,ighbor-'
Now we do most willingly say that if we po'
sessed the estate OF the Duke of Marlborough,
Dc-ca.hirs, or of Norfolk, could not feel just
fed in appropriaing several miles square of feri'
all around us were existing in abject poverty an
destiiuiion, from which or two of that Lao,
would in good degree relieve them We could no
ask our Father in Heaven 10 forgive US our tres
passes while we dIssipaed in idle luxury or osier
talon the means Of rasiug 50 many OF His childr,i
from despair and misery 10 hope and happiness
But we never held that any Duke land is fhe pro
perfy of his poorer neghbor,' the Express a.
serts. 1t is the property OF HIM who holds tn,
title.dceds, and Of nobody else. We only con,en,
that the sy stem which made II the property of on,
man. and has kep, il so for eight hundred years i
q bad system, aud ought not to be extended W,
would like TO keep a. much possible of the land
not Yet become private property exempt from it.
operation. Precisely how this is TO be done
whether by the means proposed by the Natona
Reiormers following any man who owns no land /,
occupy while he sees fit 100 acres only of Publ,
Land, without, acquiring any right to ALLEVIATE ii o
add more to il by limitation of the quantity o
land which any may hereafter acquire
or by any other means.-we have formed no defn
i,e opinion. aud of course express none. Enough
for the present that believe something should be
done-yes, and tina, something 'oW be done in spit,
of any stupid clamor that can be raised about In
fidelity and Agraranism. to secure future gen
erations against the righiiul evils of Monopoly OF
Land by the few.
But. says the Express the grievance stated by
The Tribune is want of land. mot bread ant
enough Of il. observe" All, sir let the lands be
long 10 a few. animated by such principles as you
avow and justify. and the many will have sorr,
chance for bread. and enough OF H. This is fall,
tested in England, where Labor is now at easl
twice as productive as ii was hundred years ago
yet the Laborer is but half as well fed aud clothed
ss he then was The earth brings forth abundanily
but the actual cuivator receives fourth of it,
produce. and follows the pillow faint with hunger
on the mos; boun,cous soil See the following test
mony-onc item only out OF thousands which I'LL the
British and Irish papers
la the Northeya Star q; June 2Sth we find an account
Of 1000 agricultural sborers assembled at uphsven II
Wiltshire England This meeting addressed b,
two lsbOrcrs named VIM. Perry and Oziss sealy The
former stated that he bad i've children from ten Year.
lie had only -. week with which 10 |
maintain them pay buy clothes. fuel soap sc lie
travels three and half miles To his work hi,
bread and water aud when he returns ~ night the |
younges, children generally In bed ami they besn
crying Father. bring a bll Of bread He has non,
10 glva and Is faint from exhaustion himself tie
cudei his speech by saying he could procure
OF land AZ two pounds three pounds wear rent
(&lo tl5) he would not be- In with his family
Sesy. who bad eight children supper, Is. week
made a similar statement The children. II they q l
potato would rush across the house and quarrel about
v no should have IT, He bad home ,hs, nigh, and
ound them crying for food He had 20 give their
md he thought II woald drive him mad single scrt