New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-01-28


the ligh, of the late from England, will atirac
particular attention.
The Public Lands.
Some weeks ago, while we were still earnestly
revolving the question of the proposed change 0
tenure of the Public Lands, we copied the PROPOSE
ton of the National Reformers and asked any op
ponent TO point out its errors None of our coten
poraries saw fit to do so-no one, in Short but {
subscriber tof ST. Lawrence CO.. in the course of q
business letter whence we should have extracted
and published his objections had not misaid the
letter beyond recovery AT length. upon the recent
notification of an article in favor of the change pro.
posed, the Courier and Express have seen fl, 10
speak out-the former in the following words:
"The Tribune thus proposes to place the Federal Gov
erpment in the attitude of landlord thousands and
millions of tenants who will hold toward II n relation al
most identical with that OF the tenants Of the Menor'n
Estates the Anti Rent regions of this State We have
no disposition upon serious discussion Of this
proposition but desire simply 10 state the poson OF
The Tribune upon IT,
If the lands in the Anti Rent region were held of
the whole People of State, subject TO rent,
servations nor service whatever, but only prov
sion against the monopoly of thousands of acres by
any one man, then the cases would be parallel.
Would any of us apprehend instructions or agita-
tions in the Ambient regions il euch were the
case there
And now let US hear the Express;
The Tribune certainly deserves the cap and bells
The fee land in he People The occupant who clcnrs
and cutvans. having power TO sell Most as,onish
ing sase What the Public Lands sell for, never paid
and never will pay the expense OF getting the tes from
the Indiana the coat OF surveys. &c; but yet We the
people, in this part of the world TO be taxed to OBJ
tain such lands and then TO allow any man TO oc
cupy 100 acres of Them for nothing at all Even now
t., att,,apf thuf
81 25 cents In of wild land In many sections
rho crop OF wheat pays FOR all the land and all the
labor put upon 1t in single year.
The Express eeems to be arguing our side OF the
question If the business of cheating or bullying the
Indiana out of their lands in order to sell them at ten
shilings an acre be indeed losing is not that
ON additional reason for giving itup? Our Country
has loat reputation and committed gross iniquity in
this double traffic; if she has lost money also who
can say that shc ought not TO quit it Hitherto the
most rascally Indian Treaty has been crammed down
the Ma tiona throat by of this very landsell
ing. Surely ought not to treat the poor Indians
co. murmurs Conscience. True. il as rather hard,
responds Pocket; but then think Of the money to be
made by buying these Indian lands al FIVE TO ten
scents acre, payable in calico ut a dollar yard
or whisky ut three dollars gallon and then selling
them OCT for shiines in solid cash
Conscience my crolchety good fellow you really
must stsnd back little and NOT thrust yourself in
the way Of such spec. Us this !-Conscence apol
ogizes and decamps. But let US stop selling the
Lands and we shall remove half the temptation Tor
what is called buying, annexng, or any other form
of stealing them. You can't then poke the TeXa,
Debt upon us, on the strength OF the Public Lande
which Texas has not now If she ever had.
As TO .te present nrice NJ tho pnhlic l. ands i
is quite low enough-too low if those Lands are ,C
be lefs TO unlimited purchase and monopoly. We
would prefer to have il higher rather than lower
the present system is to continue. We have Away,
strenuously resisted every effort 10 graduate iht
price down TO two shillinss an acre calculated II
facilitate and stimulate Monopoly and really iniur,
the futurs subduers and cultivators, We believ,
the Express states truly that many settler has paiC
for his land and labor out of his first wheatcrop
and we are confident that more twenty to forty per
cent dividends have been realized from iudicous
investments in Public Lands than ever were or viii
be in Manufactures The difficulty is not ,ha: the
Public Lands are too dear, but that. cheap as they
are those who most need Lands cannot get them
schiie those icho hare no moral right 10 any mag
and do obtain Foe Thousand to FIFTY ThonSaH<
acres each. There are tens of thousands OF worthy
willing citizens now in the New States whose
worldly goods are limited to wife and three or iou
children. an ak and two or three hoes, a COW and
pig, with rude and scanty apparel, ktchen.ware
&c These men have not and cannot raise the 5000
required TO buy 100 acres of Public Land; they
think they cannot make ii by hiring out or working
other mems land on shares, and though we think
they might, with health, frugality and good luck
we know the process is best difficult and tedious
one letter has just reached us from a young
friend IN Wisconsin who is exactly in this predica
ment- He says DE Cannot get ahead by working
o1oee men and at the usual prices of produce fer
nle as that land Ia He asks us to advance the 5000
10 buy 100 acres OF land taking the deed in our own
name; and be will build upon it, improve il, nav rs
l2 per cent interes, regularly and the nripcnal in
four years-hnt is, he viii pay $500 for land
ing 5000 There are tens of thousands all ,bro,h
the West eager TO make jus, such bargains; ,be,e
are tens of thousands Of farms SO held a, this mo.
ment, though i, is quite common to pay IS per cent,
io,eres. instead ofl2. Peleg Smith. destitute pio
neer. squats on a quarterse section of new land
this land sooner or later comes into the market
be cannot pay the 5000. In steps capitalist o.
Spectator and arranges with him TO buy the 10, a
the sale taking patent in his own name and giving
an article TO make it over to Peleg whenever he
shall have paid the $500 and IS per CEN, interest
This is common and the least exceptonabe form
OF land obbing Buying up all the timber.lc,. in