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

80 :, the columns of The Express being all con
dcpsed into its long article OF Saturday, we give
mice TO tha, article in the preceding column and
ask all our readers to peruse and consider liz charges
and sia,erncnts reauestng our assaant, II he do not
consider the experiment extrabazardous to give
like prominence on his Editorial page to this reply
If we have fairly provoked this onslaught upon us
if we have been guilty of the lniidelity, Agraran-
ism audacity, cowardice, falsehood' gambling &C.
&c of Which we are so hippantly accused the read
ers of The Tribune will now have them fully ex'
posed and thoroughly reprobated before their eyes
Is the contrary is the truth aud all this bitterness
and spleen are excited, not by the doctrines, but by
the circulation aud standing of The Tribune we
wish tina, fact to be obvious to the readers OF The
| Express as well as of this paper We doubt not
the readers ofbob papers will gladly see synopsis
Of both sides of this controversy, and the end oil 1t
For the benefit of the readers of The Express let rs
resia,c our or ;inal positions
]. We did say. in article on Texas Land
.JobIng and with immediate reference to that bus-
ness. but never with any thought of con.inins the
application of the principle TO that region that
DThe more we reject the social history and condi
ton of the Human Family the stronger grows our cor
vicrion that hc should be some limit 20 ne righ oHy one
human being 10 monOpoiitc the s0H nhch bod mas Md'e
| for me sus,eRaHce If The race
This sentiment though casually elected in the
coursc Of an article on Texas, we have maintained
throughout this controversy and stand by II ever
more. There ought to be some legal limit to the
right of any one man 20 monopolize land by the
million acres-not in Texas only, bat every where
We never said, thought nor minated, that this
principle was applicable TO Texas alone. We know
that one Land Company among others has grant
there of some 100000 acres for which it has
given little or nothing. 1t will doubtless sell cheap
or give away such part of il as least valuable until
il has secured the construction OF roads bridges
public cdfccs, &c. when il viii sell or lease the
residue at its own prices and realize several colos
sal fortunes We are utterly opposed 10 this mode
of alternating the original title OF the community 10
all wild lands and the fact that the lands of Texas
are mainly aenaied and held forms one OF our
reasons for opposing Annexation
o Ofcoursc we hold that the policy which dvi
ded all England d1nong The seven hundred principal
followers Of William the Conquerorwas bad poll
cv--unusi in the present and pernicious in the iu
,urc. through ages. We think, too that the policy
which originally cedcd great portion of the soil OF
this State to form the Van Rensselaer,. Livingston
and other manors, with the sale of the Western part
of the State to the Holland Land Company, were all
mistaken and injurious, and that. warned by these
errors and the evils that have grown out OF them
care should be taken to avoid them IN future.
g. All har interposcs The Express, you mean
that the titles so acquired are not valid No, Sir
- =. Il
of those TO whom the State has granted it, whether
wisely and bencfcenty, or ignoranty and PERM
ciously We complain neither of the Graniors nor
Grantees of these immortal rights whether in New
York or elsewhere In this State, we believe all
parties acted uprghtly, according 10 the best light
they had That jusiiiies them bu, would not ex-
cuse our repeating their errors with the experience
we have had of the incompaibiiy of feudal with
republican institutions The case of Texas we con-
slider much worse. because and-Siealing and Sla-
very have been the the main impulses both of lis
Revolution and of Annexation.
Let us illustrate this question Of right on which
the Express tries hard 10 seem puzzled. We will
suppose our Government were involved in war, ere.
dit low and money wanting,-a very common case
with governments. The party in power i'm
PEELED by natural dislike to increase taxes fearing
that would make the Administration and the War
unpopuar-perhaps upset them In this dilemma,
UP steps an agent of the Rothschilds and says, We
can help you out of your difficulties. We will pay
YOU 500 100000 cash downior your Public Lands,
and thus amply supply your needs without ncreas
ing the burthens OF the People" All must realize
that this offer, obvia,ing all present difficulties.
would be very tempting. and in the absence Of any
matured Public Opinion adverse 10 il, wond quite
probably be accepted. The vast Holland Pur-
chase in our State had an origin not unlike this -
Now we contend that it would be trrong 10 yield to
such tcmptation-would be robbing Pos;criiy and
cniailing incaculabc evils the Country. But
supposing the bargain TO be made and the consider
alton paid-no matter how hard the former, how in
adequate the laiier-we insist that the title of the
purchasers grantees would be valid and the faith
of the whole People pledged 10 sustain il. The ne
ccssary presumption would be that the Government
had acted for the highest sood OF the People present
and future and that all were bound TO respect the
act Of their rulers their own We. indeed should
advocate the buying back Of the Lands at the ear
hest practicable moment but none would oppose
more earnestly the reputation of the bargain.
4. Now a few words-more cannot be needed
as TO the Duke of Marlboroughs right TO devote
thousands of fertile acres 10 hunting park, while
thousands of furnishing wreiches just existing all
around that park would be made happy by the rent
Of an acre of i, on moderate terms; We have al
ways fully admitted his legal right, do that very
thing Yet We do say that. in view OF the purpose
for which God maniesily made the Soil snd the easy
way in which Dukes obtained possession OF it, we
cannot consider sach use morally jusiifable. Re
member that Barons were originally the protectors
and guardians OF the peasanuy-,hat the duties Of
the two classes not one sided but mu,ual-,hat
rack rents and the expulsion of the poor from their
ancestral homes are comparatively recent invcn.
;ions-,hat not half the vassals of an ancient Earl
Percy or Fergus McIvor ever paid any rent at all
or were expected to pay any. If there be anything
in this principle which applies to American Pa.
,roonery, We cannot help H. Wherever lands have
been granted or sold for nominal sum to some ono
man no, for his benefit exclusively, but for the sup
.i.o Of, hoSc ho may h, in1uce1 IN