New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-26
Anti-Rent.
10 he Edilor Of Tie Trl5nas


Gen. CHIP ~. And Cain .ai unto tie Lord. Ny pun
ishr,n, gfcsicr naa : caa bear Behold iiou hat driven
or his day from the fare Of he earth; and from hy
face shall bee hid and shall be fugitive and Fasaoynd
lc earth. and shall come 20 that every one me-
fndeih me shan sing NE. And me Lord said unto hr
1HEkkFOkE, asAoios.ef sogeh Cam ngerHce sAoI Ds
inleu JPN hia fd mot by Vengeance D. une
saith the Lor6.1 Ana TIE Lord mark upon Cam, let
any one finding iGm snould XII h'ai."
1t is not my purpose Mr. Editor, to institute IN
analogy or comparison Of the case Of Cam and Abel
with that Of Landlordism and Tenantry Of the pres
ent day as existing in this any other notion, bat
TO state that an eternal has rested and rests
every land where the soil has been or Is cngrossed
by the FEW that violence and bloodshcd have
ever been and ever will be the result Just in pro
norton TO the enlightenment of the masses and de-
graduation poverty, vice aud social deiorrniiy ever
in ratio TO their ignorance. Not less thar fire
millions out Of population Of twenty millions in
England ireland and Scotland alone. eroaning IN
der every species Of physical, mental and moral want
and bcotcd to last degree attest the ruth Of what
say aud when capital in this country shall attain it,
maximum and the land gets into the possession Of the
few. cher by ownership or the as Taiai bondGYe Of
bonds and mortgages, the same woes VIII petal us
and are no ours proportion 70 the hcns upon real cs
fte within our bounds Our cities arg overstOcked with
laborers and the professions. NisTV and dcsfi'WiOn
roaQ rr and haunt ery L0 Drtcd residence IN
thar b0undsi growing chiefly out OF the fact thai the
children of the farming atStc,s are necessiiaed 10 leave
their homes and seek living them because OF ncsn
hrances upon the Fundamentally driving large portions
the city population out OF employment or falling them
selves into state of degradation aud ideness But let
this pass Ny intention in sitting down express
a hopeful reliance upon toe popular justice ana 10
telgencc IN relation the recent tragedy IN Delaware
than even Horace Greeley dnes-and God grant may
be the bettcr prophet Of the two. In speaking Of the
Tenants yOn say but of them have chosen Grim
ina and thereby Frustrated al hopes OF popular
sympathy and b9iSiore Gd' This cannot be the good
surgeon always probes deepest when the wound rankos
most and applies HE when the disease smost
alarming And will not believe that the legislators OF
the state be sufficiently governed by the impulses
and petucnce Of power 70 deny justice 10 10000 OF lie
inhabitants because few have acted criminaly-
and if they sufficiently imbued with the spirit OF
Christ arrive at the mode Of Furnishing the murderer
that has the sanction Of the Almighty in the Of Cain
cannot believe that they the people are fsarfvNy
rcreagefd IN their instincts and desires make
murdsr he justification Of hopsaad more biiaded
bydm0niac passions ho'y hey pd By he aT.cfed
frifc erDlOs0Hs Of rrah IN me Pofr0OH0y i7tres
not 10 cnfr upon cqpdid pes QatiOE If NE rights and
demands Of me aggrierod THaaf5y II our Representa-
tgcs cannot feel proper indignation against crmnaly
without themselves disclosing and acting upon the
impulses and mofires G GcfgGod me criminals then fare
wen 10 all our greatness" You have charged me with
being an An-Rcnter in your editorial renarks-it 20
sympaise with the oppressed without particle of III
in their struggle for Equal Rights constitutes
me one. then am what you term me-oiherwise not
but coming from their neighbOrheOd, and seeing how
itrle their understood forth their claims
70 public consideration as understand them-with no
ether motive than the good OF mankind. and care
what am coiied only so far as ii may make me
an interested party and thus dsparage their prospect of
being heard and their merits candldy discussed by the
popular mind With these remarks close. simply add
ing my opinion not made up but by correct niorma-
non TINT he anti RcHfs heartily depiOrc hc recent
onrage in DeiGwore than do hOse uh0se snpafties
e interests and The side Of Pafro0HDg and Po1r0.
COEYMANS.