The New York herald., 1845-01-03
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The Anti-Rent Excitement.
AT length the excitement, now ending in open
insurrection, and which has existed for many
months past in the counties surrounding Albany,
Troy and Hudson, has reached this city, and in a
form which must call out an expression of public
opinion on the present crisis in the insunectionary
districts, and thus determine whether we are a
government Of laws, constituionally enacted, and
to be rigdy administered, or whether we are a
government subject only TO popular impulses of
mobs and insurrectionary meetings Of agltators,
either here or elsewhere.
During the last few days, it appears that some
movements OF sympathy with those outrages in
the infected counties, have been made in this city,
and the result appears to be the call for public
meeting in favor of the insurrec:ion, at Croton Hail.
this evening, in the shape of the following hand
bill, which has been placardsd in all the public
places throughout the city and the suburbs. Here
it isl
ASrrRESr WAR.-FELLow.C w.CIrIzENs-Troops have
Death for the purpose Of Commencing civil this
State to establish feudalism freedom We protest
against these proceedings because
L. The immense tracts OF land claimed by Lord Van
were given to him by persons oregn kings
and queens) who did not own one acre Of the same
upon which the tenants" permitted to occupy the
land thus unjusty claimed by Van Rensselaer, 10 addi
vice. repenish hs arder with fat ducks and pay him
fine every time they dispose of their properyeven by
build any water machinery and must at any time he de-
mands it. give up the whole farm, any part thereof
that my lord" may erect his mills, and erect his machi
merry aFt
Feliow-citizens-Every must see that such sys-
tenn Is not only degrading to the who s victims
but insult to the majesty OF the people In the dega
dation OF few citizens every member OF the Re.
public is measuraby disgraced. r@ W
citizens of New York will be held Croton Hail.
Of the Bowery and Division street. Friday evening" jan
consdsrstsn the best means Of aboishng this remnsnt
Of Fuedal barbarism
y order q Committee of the New. Work National
THOMAS A. DEvYR, Chairman.
There is no Misunderstanding this bulletin. The
person whe signs the notice Of the committee has
been for several years resident of this city, and
during the last four months he has published jour-
nal called the "National Reformer," the columns
of which have teemed weekly with articles in fa-
vor Of the revolutioniss on the Hudson, and call
ing upon them, by all the principles of liberty and
equality, to unite together and put down for ever
what was called "feudalism, "tyranny," slordy
oppression" During the past summer the same
person frequently visited in person the insurrecton
ary districts, giving in his paper full and graphic
counts of the various meetings which he attended,
and the progress Of the free" principles which his
paper advocated. We have still in our possession,
we believe, number of these papers, which con-
tanned descriptions OF his journeyings around the
insurrectiopary districts.
Again, the "National Reform Committee" Of
which this person is the organ, and of which one
Mr.. John Windt and various other individuals in
this city are members, has been in existence for
many months, and its declared purpose has been to
organize party, whose grand princplel of action
was division Of the public lands amongst all those
citizens of the republic who now possess no landed
properly. This division is to be effected without
money and without price. Previous to the last
election, this committee and their assistant
agitators, had various meetings throughout the
city, organized subcommittee in several wards,
and actually nominated Congressional and State
tickets, all their candidates being pledged to
their peculiar doctrines. Ely Moore was one OF
those candidates, and Parke Goodwin, one of the
assistant editors of the " Evening Post" we
believe, another. At all events the latter
gentleman published something favorable to the
views of this new agrarlan party. We may also
add that this party have another newspaper or
gan entitled the " Working Mans Advocate, .
which is edited by an Englisman named Evans,
who was, we believe indocrinated with these agra
ran principles in the English radical districts and
Mike Walsh. This paper is weekly filled with the
most infammatory appeals to the mob.spirit, and
brea,hes tone of bold and utter defiance of the
laws.
Such are the movements which are now CON-
ing rapidly to crisis A public meeting Of the
citizens OF New York is called tonight at Croton
Hall for the purpose of devisng measures to pre-.
vent the execution of the laws this State. If the
constituted authorities of New York are unable 10
carry the laws into execution, and these anti-rent
principles obtain the ascendancy, the next move
ment will be to divide the public landsto abolish
all rents-destroy ali leases and titledeeds-and to
throw society back to its original elements
a "where wild in woods the noble savage ran"
This then, the singular crisis into which the cri
minal apathy Of both parties before the last elec
ton has preciptated the people of this city and Of
this State. It is now, indeed, time TO act. And
we look to the people Of this city take that course
of action in relation to this deplorabe agitation,
which full determination to uphold the constitu-
ton and the laws, will warrant at this critical
ment in our internal difficulties.
MORE ABOLITION MovEMENTs. While the patri.
OTIS of Quattlebum and Bluf-town, in South Caro-.
lina are threatening to dissolve the Union If the
Tariff be not repealed and Texas annexed, we per-
ceivc that the Abotionists Of Boston and that
neighborhood, have commenced movement fol
the peaceful dissolution of the Union in the shape
of petition which they intended to present to
Congress during the present session. II seems that
petition, calling for National Convention to ex.
terpate Slavery, or dissolve the Union with the
Southern States, has been circulated all over Mas
sachusetts for some time past, and is now publish.
ed in the Boston Liberator, (Mr. Garrisons paper,)
with great deal of flourish, and no doubt will be
ready for presentation to Congress in week OF
two.
Thus we go. While many Of the States repudi.
ate their just debts-while an insurrecton is goins
on in the central counties Of the State of New
York-whle certain portions of Maryland and