New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-16
Land Limitation.

York In session OF Albany praying that person be
go acres Of land One Of the journals Of city New
York undertakes 70 ihow the futy Of bis arguments
sssh Of theso propositions.
hnds, In any quantity however small, without PRICE
Thsy tho properly Of the whole nation viii always
command sorne price. are legitimate stmuahi 10 In
dosuy, and consequently source OF revenue. Mr..
Greeley would give them 70 actual settlers, but
less he bound the grantees to settle and cultivate
them, be would nud the Idle and dssolus taking
them under pretepce Of settlement snd se.ward sci
nns them spectators for the of dissipation
He would limit the qusny of each grant ls0 acres
Eers partly With him But his opponent ju'ty
ssys that the public lsnds were won by the oooo sno
toll and money OF the whole people snd are therefore
their property the grant ~ portion without PRICE
RODS Ill the rest OF 30 much properly we aoo
that Congress might as well impose properly LAX
to divide the proceeds among the poor IL mr. ufeeiey
Will say that the public lands shall be sold only 70 actu
settlers In Quantities no. exceeding ot1 s Vii 'av
thst DC shall allowed 10 acquire more than 64o
scros we shall be than hall incIined 70 agree WIZ
him in sGat And II be will add thut each grant OF oso
sres shs be nsenabe by the grantee excepting TO his
ohudrsn or heirs law ve will say amen The grand
obset Of the Federal Government. In selling the public
lands should be to promote independent agricultural
"a bold yeomsnry, their country's pride 5"
and this grow beside that grisvous curse, landed
aristocracy. Hence the Federal Government In selling
tho public lands, should totally change It's system and
sonnne them sexual settlers In moderate quantities In
stead ofeaviDg them always has done, 10 specuat-
them by adopting propositions.
He must allow no person TO acquire more than $40
We subscribe 70 the principle but would extend
10 $40 farmer with GAO acres may as most farm
do, raise family bis estste; and section cult
waited by the labors Of himself and children will make
four quarter sections OF 60 aces for each Of as many
children who will have the advantage Of beginning with
farms already cultivated But to illustrate objections
TO grants above section square mile would refer
70 the whole history Of Att Reutism In New York and to
two great estates within knowledge In western
9tate. One owns 900e0 another $1,000 acrss; nno
each leases Il TO tenants furnishing them with house.
tools and working CATTLE and taking for his share 0oTd
Of the produce Tho bargain cannot be advantageous 10
The tenants but must be TO the landlords who ~oua
otherwise AJAX differently The Landlords mus be landed
Arstocras and the tenants nust be dependent peesan-
Ths 10 OF the deformtes Of Europe and we would
stop iis progress In our country.
Remarks on the abope.
We cannot account for the multiplicity Of grave
srTors embodied In the above article. !. We have
addressed no memorial TO Congress. Q. We do not
object to assessing on each tract OF Public Land
sum sufficient TO pay the cost OF extinguishing the
Indian title, surveying, recording giving title of
occupancy, &c though we would not debar poor
man from entering on The land until this sum was
paid Let him take any quarter section not already
occupied aud give him title he shall
have repaid the Government whatever sum It may
have expended TO prepare the land for his use. 3.
How the Ledger talk of oSr plan allowing &C.
oupants to "sel their lands to spectators for the
means OF dissipation" we cannot imagine. We
would allow no man ever to acquire more than l6o
acres Of the Lands now public, while the whole
body Of Public Lands should stand open TO all land
less men at that rate, and how spectators could
con,rive 10 buy them up, and If they did what they
could do with them, problems which would
puzzle Philadelphia lawyer, If not an Editor.
Allowing one man to acquire $40 acres is just
knocking tho Reform in the head, That is amply
land enough to support sixteen families, if properly
cultivated Let settler take and hold $40 acrea
and we shall in good earnest bavc the idle and
dlssolute taking them under pretence of settlement,
and afterward selling them TO spectators for the
means of dissipation" We insist that loo acres 10
NJ much as any man can want to cultivate by his
own and his famlys labor, and that 10 allow more
IL TO open the door to intermnabe gambling in land
and labor. As to allowing one man TO take mile
square, that he shall have quarter section for
each Of four children, the principle would justify the
concession Of three square miles 30 as to have a
quarter section each for dozen children. l. would
Be impossible TO keep out the Leasing and Tenant
~ system If locations extended TO a square mile
each. Besides this would allow a township TO be
absorbed by ibirty-six families, instead of being
divided among one hundred and forty.four The
difference In roads, mills schools churches &c &c.
viii be very serious one. And If the principle of
Land Limitation is once fairly established, every
nan's children will be secured better chance for
land and an Independent, livelihood than any man
can secure TO his grand children under the present
System.
Capital Punishment and its knects upon the
People.
The advocates Of Judicial Murder urge as one of
tie principal reasons for perpetusting the Divine
institution of the galows that by making public
example Of its victims tends deter others from
committing murder, yet. with an unaccoun,able in
consistency, they generally favor private instead of
public executions. If the spectacle Of publicly
sransling or beheading fellow being has salu-
tary effect upon the people. in the name of common
sense would like ask why the most public
place should not be chosen for such exhibitions and
why exertiops should NOT be made to call out sl the
people in the region roundabout-men and boys
ma,rons and maidens and little children-that they
may come up aud see the sight and be forever pre-.
vented from doing wrong
On the day of the Execution OF Andrew How.
ard 1t Dover. n. Il. for the murder OF Phoebe Hud
son, upward OF three thousand persons, a third Of
whom were females collected around The Jail 70,
the poor Satisfaction of witnessing the death strug-
Les Of q fellow creature. The gallows had been
erected in the rear Of the jail where could no, b see.
fre the street. The Sheriff had sndeayored 4, CON-
oeL Il by canvas from those spectator, who rs-
mounted the fences and collected In the oeld .-op,de
Tho crowd thus disappointed getting look a, tina
vst but the more so,,erous part threatened 10 de.
wosh the fences Of the jail yard the canvas WAS no,
removed The Sheriff was obliged to ard thus
sporon Of the crowd made Aapey with view of the
top Of the saows and Of the prisoner before he WAS us
cred into the presence Of his God
Howard had made a full and free confession of hi.
crime Speaking about the murder which he commit.
ssd he said that several pon,s 10 BY som, OF m,
winssses were not true BE did not shoo, his victim, as
che coming down STARE but she approached br
In the entry. The statement Of the time which /, WAS
said he did the deed no, correct within IN hour and
half S,ill all the main points tue He had no
snnity against her, he wished only her money After