New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-04-09

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arth eminent aud weatby-say Irish Landlords
and some others-would but thoughtfuiy read, for
their own sakes and all mems thus speaks Of the
victims Of that carnival Of madness and butchery
known as the Reign OF Terror
There were above -Four Thousand cries Montgai
iArd msny were guillotned fuslsded, noyaded'
dsne TO dire death OF whom Nine Hundred were Wo
msn. II 10 horrible sum of human lives, NJ fAobe'
sote ten times many shot rightly on held oil battle
and enc might have had his Glorious Victory with fs
Dsum History. looking back over this France
through long times back to Turgots time for instance
when dumb Drudgery staggered up TO It's Kings Palace
and In wide expanse Of saow faces squsor and winged
raaeedness presented hieroglyphicsly Its Petition OF
Grievsnces and for answer got hanged on q new gal
ovs forty feet high-confesses mournfuy that there
no period to be met with In which tho general Twenty
ave Millions Of France suffered less than In this period
which they name Reign Of Terror But ras not he
pumb Millions that suffered here but the sparkling Thou
sands and Hundreds and URas. lcho streked and pub
I,hxd and made The rord ring nth their rail- as they
could and should thoi Is The grand peculiarly"
Truth old as Society, universal as Man 1t is
true ia spirit to-day, and in this State Of NewYork.
Consider il with reference to these Anti Rent
troubles, so called How many in every hundred
Of those whose breath forms what is called Public
Opinion ever sought, or now seek, candidy and
carefully to see what is urged, may be urged, on
the side Of the comparatively drunk party to the
controversy which cannot afford to give stump
tuous feasts to Legislators and Functionaries and
Journalists which proifers no lucrative patronage
70 Newspapers, none at all but Of the eanest sort
which is hardly able to state Its own claims and
grievances lucidly and forcibly The mass Of
newspaper.readers understand vaguely that there
is in several Counties of our State class Of low,
rascslly creatures known Anti. Renters, who re-
fuse to pay their debts disguise themselves as In
dians assemble in mobs, shoe Sherifis and com
init miscellaneous villanies Let that this class
have anything 20 say for themselves-any earnest
convictions Of Right and Justice-any motive but
knavery purpose but that of cheating their cred
itors-no conception of this has ever entered the
brain Of the mass Of those who (if they choose
take wine with their dinners And yet it is the
fact which all men should understand and consider.
Wrong their views may be-wrong the acts OF
some of them surely and hagrmtly have been
but what they believe and feel and seek, ought to
be generally understood. How much ought it TO
cost any one who allows their side OF the question
- BE- heard
Years AGO we were informed by IN eminent
lawyer ct tis Ciy--a PATRON attorney who
usoaiy Knows whereof be athrms, and who is bit
terly hostile " ...e Anti hcnters-that the Anti
Rent troubles would prove more tenacious and for
mdable in Columbia than in any other County oil
the State. Among other reasons for this he stated
that there were many conflicting land titles in that
County--that in cases within bis knowledge rents
had fallen sineteeR gears in arrear because the
tenants had been warned on the one hand not 10
pay to this claimant and on the other not to pay to
that-so that whenever the title should be settled
there would be heavy claims for back rents to
make trouble. The truth and sagacity of his oh
ssrvstion have already been fully demonstrated.
Our readers know that there have recently been
several serious outrages in Columbia County, hay.
ing their origin in ejectments Of farmers alleged to
be tenants. They had previously been apprised
in our columns that a number of ejectments had
been decreed by the Circuit Court during its late
term at Hudson. Statements of the facts on the
side Of the Landlords have been abundantly cir
calated. bat nothing has been generally heard from
the other side. In the last Freeholder however,
we find the following statement by the Anti. Rent
Committee, which We hope will be generally and
carefully read. We publish it not as justifyng
resistance to legal process, but as shedding much
light on the causes of violence and anarchy. Hear
and heed,
LAW AND ORDER
That the public may be the better enabled to Judge
who are the friends of law and order-the Tenants or
hs Landlords and their aiders and abeors the follow
ing interesting proceedings at the Circuit Court held In
the City OF Hudson the present week, Amasa J. Parker
Circuit Judge. presidne laid before them. OF the
cults proposed TO be submitted 10 arbitration four were
% recover possession of valuable farms for which the
defendants had paid fair and full consideration for the
Tee, but which II was alleged had been forfeited In
consequence Of one ausrtersse Ia each having been
omitted TO be paid 10 past generation of the
numerous sales that had taken place Of the respective
farms sougbt TO be recovered For every Of these
farms the Landlords had already received BY the en-.
toresment Of different covenants In the original eran
he full value Of the premises ct least four times over
Three Of the suits tried and verdicts for the de-
sseosn rendered In two OF them upon the question of
faes that the quarter sales for which the oreitures
we're sought 10 be enforced had been actually released
more than nfty years ago. Ia each Of the cases The,
Judge strongly intimsted that the quarter sales were
Invalid and contrary 10 law butreseryed the question for
The decision OF the Supreme Court Two Of the suit
were against widow ladies' one OF whom Ia risipg nj
seventy years OF age and is sued for premises not 70 ex
coed . half IN extent Of barren moun,sin land
where she had erected an humble dwelling and lyed
tor more than thirty years.
Several OF the suits were 10 recover possesson If
vSsseie farms for which fair price had once been
PAID and which have been In the possession NJ The a.
tendants and their ancestors for one or mor- lvs.
III teese csses the landlords bad refused 10 renew the
ieeses or pay for the improvements W"
majority Of all the cases were In .,~c,r,on, q, -
Po.seon Of The farms for which fun value had been
poe 10 ueeer pIeenee that small portion of the an
nas rent reserved he'd not been paid nd ,h. o M
consequently forfeiture and this too when "s'
s"S .us were sbundany able
In some Of the cases II was admitted ths N.
sued for were worth two years rem, saps ehses
paid with the Improvements made by the ,sns, ss
Every landlord upon the plsint in on ~
moro Of the suite and they were all included IN ths mr.
positions made.
His Honor tho Judge freely conceded that the eues
lions Of Law involved Ia the sults OF very great i'm
poraDce and 10 regard to many Of which there was e
IRENE doubt The attorneys for the landlords seven or
eight In number had been requested to be present and
we're In Court Under this state OF facts the following
propositions made In writing and read In open
Court and with the consent Of the Court filed by the
Clerk:
Circuit Cour Room, HUDSON, March 10, 1871.
fEfSEk, JI Agent for the Anli Rent Associations II
ne County Of Columbia and their Attorney and Counsel
% sshaf Of hs AntReo,efs Of said County snd Of bis