New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-04

the wilderness and made it productive ihri''!
freehold.
But we do no; consider that there are any risn7
Of property 80 absolute to be ~iii'oai -"
moral qualification The night Of kmineni D'".''',
by which the Stale takes away man iaHa "
i, decides 10 be wanted for some purpo-e ~
n,;li,v ia asxeu established as any right man
NAV own a house ever 20 ndispuiabiy !e' Id. ~
right to at FIRE to il John JACOB A-''' ''-
J all his vas. wealth so FAR as we KNOW .! III
extraordinary capacity and Lifelong ''''
has a. broad right 10 dispose OF i D. any "N ~
have Put if next winter were 10 prove d s-a7o1
= .,d Mr. As,or should use his wealth 70
Ill tho food in the City, and then burn one
80, - order 10 enhance enormously the vaine
g ,he residue. we should say he had done what
~ ,r,n had a moral right 10 do. Can this be dis
no,es1 Does its assertion viiiaie or deny the Just
rights Of property
Finally. we would deprive no man ofany property
which the law declares be his, whether IN lands
or any thing else but we would 80 shape the legs
lave and policy OF the country as to discourage 'ne
future concentration OF land into vast estates OF
manors and encourage iis division into snai iree
holds This is the policy Of our present ainl'apie
Public Land System, for framing which MI 'aAa-
tin and Gen Harrison have Justly received so much
credit-a system unlike that Of Texas or any new
country buiours Whatfariher action ma! Prerequisite
TO give fui eiecto the principle here involved we 90
not assume 10 decide. but we do deem II OF great
public i'm por,ance that those who subdue the WI
derpess should do il for themselves and their descen
dants not for some great landlord or landJoobIns
| laws do not eutnccuflN
discourage specuaiions in wild lands so as to leave
them all open at Government prlces 10 me ao'uai
settlers we would add others that would don't IL
seems greatly more important that every man VINO
wants land should be enabled to obtain small Tree
hold easily than that any one man should be pri'iies
ed 10 ovn a million acres TO say nothing OF the leNah
ten and twenty million principa!iiles We dono'coh
slider the receipts from the Public Lands as al pre-
sen, used. of any serious utility we believe iheir
natural influence in unsetiling and causing huc'ua
,ions in the Tariff over balances their positive good
u. think !, wrong to support the Government 10y
the sale and dminuiion Of the patrimony of the peo
ole and, if the principle of Mr. Clay's Land Bill
cannot be carried and the Land Proceeds thus sa-
credy set apart TO purposes OF Education ana ih''r
nal Improvement, that their benefits shall extend
10 future generations we would prefer not TO have
them sold at ALL but c, every who please' settle
upon and improve quarter section to be his and
his descendants, so long they shall choose to &C
emmy il. with right to sell out their Improvements
10 any one who possessed no o.her land ms i
the idea of the National Rcformers-t may not De-
perfect it may not be the best tba, can be done but
we can perceive little objection to II.
mar
Express's aricle-that in which il assumes the
Popedom of the Wing party and undertakes TO cut
off as herecs all who do not concur in lis own mar
row bigotry 1t tells IA.
The Express in common vrh The bhs party always
sbiured Socialism FOuricrism Anti Rensni and OCon
nellsm The Ukigs lolfke all fhesc things and
consider them as the offscOuring OF LOco-fOcOisn
We challenge the authority of The Express TO
issue these Bulls: we demand to know rhere and
cAcH the Wing party has pronounced any such ex-
communications. We know hundreds Of good
Whigs-we mean good voters for the Wing tickets
who hold to what The Expire as calls Socialism and
Fouricrisu1 some two hundred in one community
or township who all but eight or ten regularly vote
the Wing ticket when they vote las they do IN all
important Elections Who authorizes The Express
10 turn these men ont Of the Wing party
Then az to what it calls 'Agraranism and Amt
Ren,ism we know at least one regular Delegate
~ the baltimore Convention which nominated Mr.
CLAW last year. one Wing Member OF Congress
elect seven Members OF the last Assembly andnol
less than Ten Thousand stanch voters for Clay IRE
lipebuvscn and Fillmore, who are called Anti Rent
ers The term is bad one, but they assure us tha'
they are willing pay all the rent they owe Inc
claimant can show good title. and they want noih'
ing bu, simple jusiice.) They may be very mis-
taken and wrong in all this but who authorizes The
Express TO cut them of from the Wing party and
say it oa,hes them They have right to see the
edict from some more authoritative source Than
newspaper Editor trying TO injure and why his
aeighbor.
Just so as to Repealism," which is another thing
which The Express loathes heartily, no doubt
but has no right to ioist its Native American .niol
erance and despotism on the Wing party. We ask
again. bv what authoritative actin what Conven
ton. Meeting. Address, or Resolution. did 1.-THE Wing
party set forth this loathing and authorize The TX
press 20 read all who sympathize with Ireland in her
holy struggle for Freedom and Justice out OF the
Whig party We know many good Wings VINO
are ardent friends of the Repeal movement-ior II
GOV. Seward Mr. Weed, The Tribune, &c are east
ly put under the ban, we doubt the facility OF SO
disposng of Willis Hail. Samuel Stevens. DR.. Pitch
er, the last Wing candidate for Governor OF Mlchi
GAM &c &c If all these. together with such natives
of ireland and American Catholics as The Express
X Co did no, succeed in driving out of the Wing
party last year by Nativism. are now TO walk the
plank we insist on having some scrap OF authority
beyond The EXPRESS naked edct- which may be
ever so peremptory wi.hou, being conclusive.
We cannot close without avowing one regret
that that portion Of the Press Of NewYork which is
supposed to represent more especially lis Commerce
and Wealth should too often see 1T TO indulge in
such antics a. those We are now rebuking. For the
dishwaier malgniiy Of The Expressive care moth
ing but such attacks as il INDUCES in on large and re
spectacle classes OF the community, who are divided
in politics are certain work serious injury to the
Whis cause. Loco Foco electioneerers at once ap-
neal 10 every member of the abused classes. with