Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-01-06


first side, respecting the tract of land known,
in New York as the 'sHol and Purchase"
Our object is, to point out what seems to us
notable illustration of the direction which le-
gislation has always, in all countries, taken;-
the benefit of the few at the expense of the
many. Indeed, for many years past, our LIE
gislatures have seemed to be nothing else than
conventions from the People assembled to con-
fer some especial favor upon few individuals.
The State of Massachusetts has claimed and
received more praise for her policy than any
other State in the Union; and she sometimes
challenges the world to produce her equal
The sale of the 'Holland Purchase" shows,
that she too has mad her days of folly, and the
numerous monopolies she has created and is
still creating, proves that she is by no means
wise at the present time. True, she may
boast of wealth and prosperity within her boun-
dares, but for the absence of that portion of her
children which her laws have made miserable,
she may thank the wilderness which has given
them the exile's asylum. The toll, the wants,
the debasing poverty the consequent ignorance,
the degradation, have been seen, recommended
and mtigated by the wilderness, more humane
than even the boosted equal laws of New Eng
land yet not less has been the suffering of the
pilgrims to the west than of those who first
landed on plymouth Rock"
But the query will arise what will be done, if
this mode of Legislation continues, long before
our existensive domain staken up, or at farthiest
when it shall be occuped, Does any one fail to
see how rapidly wealth is absorbing every
branch of business, every mode of livelihood
not absolutely Improbable and servile? With
wealth associations" Combinations" sIncor-
porations,' are the isignifc ant terms used.-
Individuals in every branch of industry no long
er negotiate with individuals in another, but,
through agents, with an intangible, impunsha-
bic, remorseless, incorporate body, which hopes
to cheat the devil out of his due by never deal
ing in the only currency known in his domin-
ions-souls. Need we point the people of
Michigan to the loss they nave this Autumn
sustained by being denied access to eastern
m arkets by the '.lInes' which now monopolize
the carrying trade! Need we point them to
the immense sums they pay into the Golfers al
ready full, even when they suppose they are ac-
commodated at cheap rate? Verify little ig-
norance is convenient thing, and that degree
of it which prevails in relation to trans portation
enables those engaged in it to make immense
profits, while they enjoy the enviable reputation
of great benevolence.
But to return, for minute, to the folly of
Massachusetts: She had conceded claim to
an immense amount of Land lying in another
State. Her government-a popular govern
ment too-as the guardian o. the people, should
Dispose of it to the advantage of the whole peo-
pie. We might suppose the best way of secu-
ring the greatest amount of benefit to all the
proprietors, would have been to sell it to such
of her citizens who wished to buy at rate
compatible with its present value. But wealth
comes up with the plea that it will be better
for the government to surrender all the owner
ship and control of it for paltry consideration,
and 4@ over the people to the tender mercies
Of monopoly of money changers. tits done:
always has been done: perhaps always will be;
but we very much doubt it.
1t will be said, that in many concerns OF
business to which we have alluded, government
should not interfere. We ask, in the name of
our Republican institutions what should gov
eminent do, if not protect to some extent the
equal right of all men to life, liberty and hap
piness. Life is barely supportable IN a state of
inextricable poverty and degradation; happiness
is gone long before starvation come; and liberty
dies the moment man is under the necessity
of asking food or employment.
Ifrepublicanism fails to preserve the equality
of men, as far as laws go to form classes, we
may depend upon it the oppressed people, will
eventually create some porcer to Cypress their
oppressors.
RESOURCES OF BosToN.-The resources of
the capitalists of Boston seem to be without
end. They own great part, if not far the lar
gest part OF all the cotton mills in New-Eng-
land. Lowell, Cabotville, Chicopee Falls and
Manchester, n. HI. are indebted to them for
what they now are-two of them large and thri-
wing cities, and the other two rich and flourish
ing villages. They have just invested five mill
ions more in new enterprise, below Lowell,
where the new city of Merrimack Is fast spring.
ing into being. Besides all this, Boston capt.
alists own an immense amount of Railroad stock
not only in New England companies but in those
of the Middle States, the West, and even the
extreme South. Mr.. Derby stated at late
meeting of the friends of the Rutland, (Vt.)
Railroad in Boston, that to take up the remain
ing stock tive hundred thousand dollars) of that
road, would hardly be felt in that city, The
dividends on most any one of the Railroads now
in operation, would be sufficient for the purpose
He said he had known himself, seven hundred
thousand dollars sent off in one day from Bos-
ton, to buy Railroad in Michigan, and about
the same sum on another day, to buy Rail-
road between Philadelphia and Baltimore. The