New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-11-12
It,nd Reform.


The w ALL street journals cannot or will no. un.
derstand the sentiment with regard to Land Ten
ures which has convulsed and still pervades the
Third Senate District The Journal Of Commerce
has u letter from Delaware County (which the Elk
press greedily copies averring that the Anti Trent
ers declare that they will pay no more rent now
,ha, they have triumphed in tho Election. We
are very sure that this is mistake, in SO TAR as 1t
is assumed to be the feeling of any considerable
portion OF those known MS Anti Renters w are
confident that no considerable portion OF them ever
expected to be relieved from the payment o! Rent
until they shall have acquired legal title 10 the
lands they respectively cultivate, nor TO acquire
such title withou. paying the legal owners there
for There are holdcrn who sincerely believe that
tho asserted titles Of some all OF the great land
proprietors are fraudulent, having originated In
crafty knavery or impudent pretcnce and only sus'
tanned by the legal maxim which torbids that ten
ant should question his landlords title but this is
by no means general. The great majority expect
to extiuguish the PATRON titles by purchase and
not otherwise and they expect OF the State such
legislation only as will tend TO induce the Land
lords 70 sell on terms favorable TO the settler and
cuItivator instead OF which the laws as they have
BEEN in connection with the leases which those
laws have sanctioned, have tended to induce and
encourage the landlord to hold perperuay.
The inheritor OF two three hundred square miles
being required to pay nor charge whatever
upon it, drawing thcrefron ample income which
no public calamity can diminish, and enabled to
boast thereupon in the more exclusive circles OF
Europe or this country of the cxten OF his domain
and the number Of his tenants, is very unlikely 10
sell single acre unless unless driven thereto by
an imperative necessity 1t is far less the fault OF
the Landlords than Of the State that this system
has been perpetuated through the last halt century
The mass OF men are governed by intuitons OF
selfinterest and there few who can be brought
to think that whatever apparently conduccs to their
own personal enjoy ment or consequence is not per
fectly compatible with the general well,bens. To
the Legislature pertains the duty OF devisins and
perfecting measures which shall tend to reconcile
private rights with the public welbeins. or at any
rate take care that the latter be sacrificed TO
the former, This WAS in part done last winter
whatever remains to be done we presume will be
by the Legislature Just elected. And so far from
the election of the candidates supported by the An
tiRenters tending TO involve them in collisions with
the laws and their ministers, we are sure that pre-
cisely the oppositeresult WILDE realized. The Anti
Renters will DO nnpellcd TO respect the constituted
authorities by the consideration that those authorities
are OF their own choosing and to obey implicitly
the L avs when they know that those BY whom the
laws are made or modified sincerely desire and
strive for the abatement of the evils of which they
complain LIE, us wait and see whether the Jour,
rectly.
But the subject OF land Reform has wider re-
lstions and more important bearings. l, puzzles
many of our usually well.iniormed citizens TO &C
count for such unwonted results rs the heavy ma.
iorities for a Whis candidate for Governor in Co
lumbia and Delaware balanced by like or larger
raaiorities for Loco,Eoco Lieutenant Governor in
Albany and Rensselaer,. They can interpret it 10
Otherwise than SIS conspiracy OF tenants TO avoid
paving the JUS, claims of their landlords And yet
out of the srigmatized District quite away from
the sphere OF any Manonsl Tenuros this topic be
gins to gain at,ention--not SeaerSlly or SO in
tently as in sections where the evils are actually
experienced which elsewhere sre but anticipated
or read OF, but still considerably and incressinSiy-
Let US pause a moment and reflect
The General Government has to-day ~ market
something over Ono Hundred Millions OF Acres Of
Public Lsnds-ali subject TO unlimited entry at one
dollar and quarter per acre--and are aboat TO
throw upon the market some Ten or Twelve Nil
hons more 4 single hrEa OF Europecn Bankers,
acting Though and taking title in eae name OF their
agent in this country or any o;het American citi
zen. might buy the bess Forty Millions OF Acres o.;
,hs,e Lands for Fifty Millions OF Dollars and this
amount, being skilfaliy selected. would probably
ehsorb all the Public Lands now in Market that are
worth subduing, leaving only swamps, maFshes
rocky sleeps and untimbered. anwasered prairies
mi. side of the Misscari for future purchaser
This immense domain of Forty Millions OF Acres
might easily be covered with European sensntsy
Of One Million Families eash being allowed 10
occupy rent,fres for seven years. would readily
agree to pay perpetual rcntof ls3 cents per scSe
or IS ner family for all time to come, tornioS