New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-05-30

an act OF tho last Congress, to the payment ofcne
Twenty Million Loan; they are mortgaged aud
used up Tor many years to come TO satisfy tie Land
B 1anues granted % tie Volunteers in this War
Thus we are eating up, wasting away, o'vo1r'ns
the National patrmony entrusted 70 rs not ;o- the
use Of this only but OF future generations SO that
thirty years hence chr Public DOMAIN viii
probably no, be half 50 extensive nor so Vaius-
be as it was thirty years ago. Now TIC w is idea
imports that u IS ,rrong titus to devote to our own
temporary uses, and thus dissipate, the properly
which belongs not 10 one age ONLY, but TO many
generations. TIE wings, Therefore propose mat
the annual proceeds ofthe gradual alienation oitAls
magnificent estate be divided among the states
% be by them invested ia Public Works OF per-
,oanent ut1itv. whereof the annual income shall
he sscrellv devoted % the Education Of tue PeO-
pie. By this policy, the mea Oh today would be
benefited quite amply and palpab.y as at
present, while the patrimouy Of the People, IL
stead Of diminishing annually, would be steadily
increasing in productive value as the Proceed, Of
the Lands were steadily Transmitted into beneh-
cent and profitable canals railroads &c. Let tins
policy be steadily pursued for the remainder Of
tins century, and our States might each have
School Funds adequate 20 their necessities, H.
vested ia Public Works Of the highest and most
universal bencfccnce. slch is the Wing Land
Policy 50 sweepingly condemned by the Baltimore
Convention, whose resolutions altogether contain
no equivalent for it in utility and benefcence.
That the Convention should proceed to reiter-
ate the mmeasuraby brazcn falsehoods that Mex
co invaded Texas, attacked our troops, SC. can
excite no surprise. a large portion Of the men,
/ bers are in the enjoyment Of large salaries and
perquisites which can only be retained By persist
ing in such iasehoods and confirming the ignorant,
The prcud.ced and the reckless In some SOFT Of be
lief in them-ot least il the notion that they are
p he believed, right or wrong. Just so with their
assurance to their patron Polk whom they yet
dared not, for their own sakes, renominateJ that
" he will carry with him 10 las retirement the e.
ben, rcsDec, aud dmrafi0n OF grateful country
R,ehi well do they know that there IS no truth ia
n,js-tl.at their cast.away instrument has not the
,csgect and esteem even Of his own party, while
10 human being is 90 bcsottcd as to waste adm.-
ration upon him. II you caa doubt Oh tiis point,
ask the next ten Loco.Focos you meet who ca
read. ia confidential private way, what they
think Of Polk, and see if one Of them has any such
idea OF him as IS expressed by admiration
The Convention deyotes two resolutions TO
the congratulation Of France on her recent change
Of Government, claiming it as a party triumph
saying.
ave feel that high and sacred dutyis devoved, with in
creased responsibility, upon the Democratic party Of this
country, The party Of the people, 20 sustain and advance
anon. constitutional liberty, equally, aud fraternity by
cOituus 20 resi-t ali muOpOes aud rAcusive legislation
for the beuet Ote few at the expense VI He many &C
The equality and fraternity OF France is shown
in abolishing Human avery on every foot Of
French soil American Democracy not only pro
claims itself the buwark Of Slavery but is even
now devoted TO the work Of extending its dark
dominion. What can be monopolies and exclu-
sive legislation for the benefit OF the few, &c. il
those laws which enable few to work, TO sell, 70
whip and otherwise maltreat ten times their own
number Of human beings, are not so Mind we
arc not claiming any special righteousness for the
Wing party on this pont-we but repel the Pha-
rsaic assumption Of the American Democracy
This is simply audaciou.
Should opportunity favor, we have more to
say Of this Convention and its professions.