New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-18
The Ambient Cause.

The late traeical occurrence at Andes Delaware
County is well calculated to the people TO the
qucsiions-NNhat is the cause of Anti-Reniism -
What do the Anti enters ask for and What are
the grounds they assume adverse to tie Landlords
In country like ours and especially in our tarn-
ing districts whose inhabitants are almost unlycr-
sally well informed on Human Rights in the alb
si-uci a. set forth in our Declaration Of lndepend-
ence, and whose sympathes hopes and sentiments
ar. clearly and earuesily-and almost necessarily.
from their equality OF condton-Democraiic what
ever party they may be attached to il would be DIFF
fcult under the above circumstances, to say what
nay be the abstract grounds they assumc.-Some
assume that they are entitled to home where they
were born ms they have none elsewhere and tia,
cir ancestors had no right to bind them 10 ieudal
thraldom by tenures abolished four hundred year.
% ia England a. in violation OF even British free
dom avcrrng that all such barriers 10 their progress
are in the very nature OF our social compact null and
void. Others assume that the lands owe all their
value TO the aggregation and labOrs OF the tenanry,
and that the landlord is 10 bis title be good only
entitled TO rent equal to interest upon the val
ne OF the land at the time OF instiiutng our Stale
Govemment-th0t Ms present rqlUe Is ~ their 0wn
creation and that, herctDTc, they dfe enficd Ia hhc
hgfffmQfc frsR 81 their 0rn toll, arguing IN addi-
ton. that If society has alphabetically acqncsccd IN
8 stem OF fraud il is time she should mend her ways.
Others adopt tho sentiment that al men are entitled
tn such portions OF the common element created by
God for the subsistence Of our race az shall be sui
fcient by their csertons upon them Ia afford them
susicnancc aud that society nor the state had ever
a lust right TO restrict this inalcnabe inheritance
q rived through the common Author a. our being.
Bat the majority of them take the ground not idly,
nor without dccpaud earncs, search into the records
and archives of governments at home and abroad.
that the grants under which the Landlords claim ii
lc are, iu ercry instance, trGudUcnt-nOt one of
which rs they h0acsiy bei,crc ever had legal or
authentic existence as q whole. and IN but rerY fer
instances even ia part This portion OF the enantry
81 aim then-and who can doubt It's justice l-ftdf
ne Landl0rds shall BIZ lar be compelled 10 Drore
their 0wnership Jctore they snail BE- aiored 10 en-
force n further c0ilecfiOR II their Rents.
There are other claims they make upon the sense
OF Justice Of the People and call upon their repre-
s,ntatives enact into laws, upon which there Is
general concurrence OF opinion wherever under
stood; 10 wit that the landlords shall be taxed upon
their rcserred interests in their leased lands in pro
portion to their value in the same manner that all
men holding bonds and mortgages are now taxed
and that the right of disiranng Tor rent Landlords
warrant shall be denied TO all Landlords and that
they be compelled collect their rents or debts IN
me same m0HHer as the merchant and the mechanic
are compelled to adopt; that there should be no
privileged classes in society where all are emit
t'cdto equal rights
will now give you a few of the reservations on
those leased lands There are reserved to the Land
o-Gs-and be II understood that this l. IN addition
to the Rent (which rent was IN all instances ian
interest il not upon the raihe oil the sou al the
q nc it was taken possession OF lst Onequar-
ter of the sale money in some instances onesixih'
a. ererv time and through all time, az often az the
laad should be sold I'd. AL mines and minerals
81. An mill sites nils. water privileges @c~ with
the privilege of building mills mill dams and OF over
flowing lands cHifirafedor other" isc and o. bud
ing roads across tie premises. cutting down WOOD
for consumption aud for buildings. with only such
remuneration to the tenant as deduction from the
rent in proportion 10 the nNHber OF acres used rate
able 10 the whole leasehold would be- without regard
TO the fact that the lands may have been cleared and
cuHfrq'ef
Letns see the Justice of these reservations: The
tenants By their tolls and constant accc>-lons TO
their numbers iro.l abroad and by blrlhs among
them an increased value to these lands make
mill privileges &c sought ior-indeed IN the course
OF a half century these become OF more value than
the entire land was al first aud yet they must not
have one particle OF value from them, although pro
duced almost exclusively by themselves Again,
the quarter sixth part OF the sale money re~crFa
ton Land that 80 years ago was worm 81 per acre
i now worth $50. say-lmade so without any iapor
or hazard OF the landlords Thus one hundred acres
originally sold. at $50 would now be worth $1,000 ;
one sixth OF til, would BE- $500, and me landlord
reap where he had not sown in addition 10 his rents
and still remaining reSeryaiionsl i've times the
amount his land was worth when the tenant TOOK NJ
perpetual lease Yet there are found men who sus
tain a fraud 80 glazing If we expect men to sub
init 10 this must cease educating them e-laDi-h
a despoiism and destroy the Press. OoEfAANs.
AUgusfl2th, lsi5.
co-resgonience Of Livingston Weiss Lxp,ess-1So.