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


A convention Of National Reiorners, IN pursu
ance Of call already noticed, met in Cleveland
Ohio, on the 18th inst. and closed its dehberaton:
on the 9Th. Miles II. Hlckox presided. Many
speeches were made, and series Of resolution;
adopted, but the following Pledge, presented by
j. Hitchcock, and unanimously adopted, is brieel
and more pointed
PLEDGE
We the undersigned hereby unite as Party o.
Progress.
must adopt below which It cannot gO) certain erea
fundamental principles such as the full recognition oil
all OF Mans Natural Dghts-his Right % the Elements.
Homes for All Il the end. Freedom oil the Fuhhl
Lands in limited quantities 10 actual settlers the TX
cmptiOn of the Homestead from Mortgage or LNecu
ton the Limitation of the quantity OF Land that any
one may hereafter come into possession Of are the
measures and the Ballot the means. And while We
pledge ourselves TO require nothing less than the above
of any member of any candidate for whom we vote
we do not pledge ourselves to ask no more.
We CLEAN the above from Tie Spirit Of Free
d1a, an excellent little Land Reform weekly, is
sued at Cleveland by Scoiield & Brown. 1t con-
tains most searching expose of the evils and op.
pressons endured by the Laboring Class from the
effect of NiageLot speculations and fancy prices,
the facts being drawn from the history and present
condition of Akron, Ohio, wherein Mr.. Leicester
King, the LiJcIfy candidate for Vice President is
Il large lot-holder The laborers Of Akron very
naturally refuse to unite with a Liberty party
which has no compassion for their Slavery.-The
Convention adjourned over Tor three weeks.
In the Spirit Of the Age, Woodstock, Vt. We
find strong and convincing appeal from the Pitts
ford National Reform Club to the Landless Labor
ers Of Rutland County, filing three close columns,
and signed H. G. Derby, Chairman, w. c. Getting,
Secretary. We make the following extract:
"The first and most essential right with which man
endowed. consider 10 be the right OF each ndi-
vdua much OF the earhs surface as Is necessary
for the supply OF his natural wants
Man crrhot live without land But II Ia not essen
tai 10 natural equality that he should have bread FUR
nished him. God has provided the elements out Of
which il can be obtained, and has ordained iaoor az
means of obtaining H. But Il one man has 10 labor Tor
the support of another part all OF his life, as con
diiion of using those elements Tor himself while the
other has free 10 them or Is enabled 20 control
greater portion of them than he needs there Is mani
testify inequality that does not exist in the order OF
Nature.
Perhaps we can Illustrate views on this point no
better than by the universally acknowledged right of all
10 the sea No man or nation of men created the
therefore nation has right 70 monopolze IT, IL Is
the free gt of Godto ALL therefore all have equal ghi
10 it, This right Is inalcnabe. No man can divesi
himself Of il 10 invest his ncighbor with double
right or subject himself and pOsterty 10 the payment OF
price for lis recovery Should the governments Of
earth usurp this right and throw it into market
article of traffic like stock in railroad, they have
done with ghe land there would then be monopoly OF
the sea there is of the land that no lndlyid
ua could have 10 il except or such terms as the
monopOlsts would be able to extort and these would
be high or low according to the demand the products
of the sea- OF the OF il means Of communication
between nations
1T plain TO be seen that whoever should attempt
TO live by fishing would have contribute from the
products of ms labor the support OF dcness and eN
travagance those now do who draw their sustenance
from the soil under the present system OF land mono
poly That land monopoly the primary, If not the
sole cause Of the famine in Ireland have
doubt That cause was imported into this country
with the first grant OF land made upon this continent
That II Is fast reducing TO the condition OF dcpcn
dent tcnanry in Europe is everywhere manifest 10
al who examine this subject
These are among the first mutterings OF tie
gathering tempest. To disregard and defy them
is to provoke and unchain the hurricane. 1t Is
urgently expedient that the Right of Man to Land
be acknowl lodged aud secured while our Public
Lands are still abundant. Delay can bat increase
the difficulty Of ultimate recognition.