Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1847-05-13
MARTINsBURG, THURSDAY

with the essential rights of every man 10 So
ciety. These national relormers," as they
call themselves, nave already been led on BY
some foreign bad demagogues 10 very gross
heterogeneous Of the Fundamental liberty OF
speech. They came il a Thong 10 The Tab
crnaee on an evening when Mr., Whitney
had hired the house for the purpose of pre-
senting the claims Of III Pacific railroad plan,
and, then insisted t.at nobody should
speak but their own deasgogues, who had
no business there at all; and TO carry their
point, they KEEP, mp ling which would
have disgraced savages. They came again,
when the Common ncil had called a
meeting Of citizens to G. asider the tax on
emigrants, and attempted to turn that meeting
into bedlam, bu, were defeated by The lem,
ent firmness OF other citisens. Suchdisorders
will never increase the happiness OF the labor
ing class. They must, have the liberty of
speech for their security uninterrupted BY the
power of government or he disorders OF a
mob. '.Note yourse!fa o." their leaders
cry And that is all very well; but some care
should be taken that the fxn does not AREA
DIV belong 10 some other an: for i'll can
vote himself into the poss ssion of the farm
OLA, then G will be likely 10 vote om =, and
ID to vote oct G, until Il viii take that which
has run through the Who'll alphabet, aud that
old evil one who always foiOwS up such mat
tiers, will dIsposseSs him
The journal Of Commteee, when it viii
speak against It's own ps.iiical fellowship,
speaks much to the point; end its relation Of
this interview makes OF !: Strong Argument,
to which little need be added.
1t has been long agreed, among the learned,
that things are witty, il said in a saloon,
which would not BE- when uttered in hovel;
that many grea, truths are irrefragable on one
side Of a river, and not worth pin on the
other bank; and, that in the nineteenth centu-
ry, there are quantities Of eternal principles
which were not exploded for full week after
their discovery. The axioms OF our phiioso-
pliers in roundabouts and painted hats clearly
belong TO that sort oil wit, o. truths, or pFnci-
piles.
The frs, Of all steps towards The formation
flights among men is thelleccgnitlon Of in
dividna property in that which ones labor
has created or rendered useful; and, the Off
spring being but a continuation OF the life Of
the parent. the transmissibili,y OF such prep
erty is an inseparabie part oil the right
To form, however, a society--that state oui
Of which can grow order aad Improvement
a second step, never reached among some
races, is necessary: the appropriation OF land
by individual use and cultivation. This once
made. the right 10 1t becomes as liked and in
deieasibie as that 10 any other property, rests
upon the same sanction, and obeys the same
rule oftansmissibility. Wandering sayages
can form only the first sort OF rights; aud, il
men who cultivate come in upon item, the
agricultural society OF course Acquires the
soil. But, being already regular commu-
nifty. the appropriation Is general. net indi-
vidual, and the personal grantof soilmost now
come from the community itself, in whom
vests what is called the eminent domain, the
lordship Of the territory occupicd,he society b.
as such.
The statement Of these few plain principles
is quite enough to enable the most ignorant
man to trace out the folly Of this claim Of eve
ry body to have lands which have been alrea-
DIV reduced TO property. Its right which
has no better foundation than that 10 take
away any other SORT Of goods-a mans house,
coat, or any thing else-slmply because yoa
hare not tie Ike, or have not as much.