New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-03-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
Foote and Doriand - Mississippi and Pacific
Raiiway--Progress Of Land Reform
Evans OF New-Jersey-Jack.op' Eaaes-
tFian ElRtne.

as % the sense Of the terms IN which FOOTE had
accused BoRLAsD Of having 10 mind Of bisown, bat
0; being Influenced or guided by CALHoCy. FooTE,
perceiy.ng that BORLAvD wss enrsged at the
charge, explained repeatedly bot the other would
not accept his explanations on which FooTE sad.
" Well vel, have IL yosr own way They then
clinched each other after BoRLAyD had struck
FoOIE violent blow, " HIGH caused him 70 bleed
freely IN the face, ard dishgured it 50 that he
could not veil attend yesterdays session Of me
Senate If brute force be the criterion Of correct
position. BORLASD has IT, He proved 70 be the
stronger man il a street bTawl BOELASo was
one Of the Americans taken by the hexicsns, IN
company with CAssirs ". CRAY; and those VINO
know both the Senators well tell me thaf they are,
in private life, kindly and benevolent, and ailke
COURAGEOUS, passionate o1d resOute - but that
FoOTE Is the more hasfy o. impulslve o. the tTo.
Dat Of tbs sudden gust Of temper some persons
suppose that nothing material will grow, beyond
az increased enlargement Of personal feeling bat
never having spoken witt FooIE, and not knowing
BoRLASD even By sight hazard no conjecture.
WALKERS bill ior Railway from the Mssissp
D 70 the Pacific begins at the beginning II proposes
10 detail from the corps oftopogaph cal engineers
force sufficient to select survey. locate, and mari,
on the InCst eligible ground, roate not over BOZ
feet wide Tor lhe railway, ard 10 report, viii Cd
estimate Of the whole COS, Of construction.
Settlers, By this plan, may become owners Of leo
acre lots each, free Of cost, and inahenaole except
TO those who would not, with the lot purchased
own more than i6O acres. No debt o. decree Of q
Chancery Court is ever 10 force any such lot n the
hammer aud tho wife must say 'ay' or her hus-
band cannot Fc square foot Of their form 10 any
BODY To secure the completion Of tho road NJ
WGLKET proposes % settle its neighborhood with
people, three townships wide on each side.
S0pposing, said be, Yesterday, when describing
T. a.. -. H. a Al I.a
would be tar rnorel, there would be opened 10 free
settlement 10000 quarter sections Of land. If oc-
cupied By families averaging four persons each, you
would have n population distributed along The
route OF 1.l52O00 Add 10 this one quarter as
many more for those settled in The villages as nc
chauics, traders, and So forth, aud others inlabg
as lebOrers and you have population OF i,+i0VOu
enough 20 secure the completion Of your road
Should the Government then ABANDON the enter
Prise every mile Of the road would be made by the
reelnen along it's lines For every mile OF It there
would DO a hundred and iortyiour independent
proprietors stimulated by all the ploapeots ut gam
aud fortune. Supposirg the cost to be 1@OloJo per
mile they would have 20 contribute but about sl'c
each 10 build it themselves, bat little more than
two.thiris of what the laud Of each would cost d
he had to purchase it OF the Government Zach
mile would contribute its own labor and manuiac
ture its tools aud implements. with every VARIETY
NJ wheel carriage used Each mile would furnish
its own supplies and provisions, animals OF drsugh
and burden, and its own guard and defenders And,
beside rs each mile of the road was completed, u
would be through a settled country, which would
contribute at once to II profitable way travel ana
freight otherwise the road wou d be comparative
ly unused until completed the whole distance and
would then have to be supported IN great degree
by the through travel and freight, which had never
kept any railroad IL repair, If Of considerable
leuzth
Mr. WALKUR seems 10 forget, however, that
there are 200 miles on almost any route Oh side
tho Rocky Mountains, and on which there would
not be timber enough found 10 make an Xhelrc
but as a whole the idea is good. All these land
MANS will help to famiiarize the great body OF the
people with those great truths, that allowing mo
neyod men, or any other class to monopclze tht
soil. would curse America as Ireland, with only
. coo landed men, is cursed that now Is the time
while land is cheap, TO begin 70 change bal sys
TEN Of settlement, and that every possible etor
should be made consistent with equity % al, u
induce the United States Congress TO abandon the
pittu sum OF one aud half millions year Of rev
enue mot . twelfth Of the cost OF tho Army ana
Navy received as the price OF land al SO an
acre and 10 SET about grating tho public lands ~
lots free 20 actual settlers under the 100 acres
limitation.
The writer OF this letter Of the Original
Land Reform party, otherwise called National lie
formers, that met at Croton Hall, New lork' I'd
lsA1, and elsewhere discoursing 70 their audiences
on land Limitation. limit to the Sherih s power
over the poor mans acre. the freedom Of the pub
lie domain. 81 lie was one of the Special Com
m..tee who drew up the FIRST Constitution OF the
National Relormers IN New York. and the dram
submitted revised, and adopted at Croion Hall,
was chiefly in his Handwriting.
To Mr.. EVANS. above ell others. and to Messrs
WINDT, MAXWELL, CoNMERFoRD. DryiR. SMITH
BARR BOyAY, and gentleman whose name es
l.ts In tIrlt
and unwcared perseverance III Wisconsin, Micln
can. New York &c and 10 few humble and IN
assuming citizens near you. much 10 owing IN lht
progress of Land Reform GrudsneN, n mo
ment OF internal trouble, Tammany hau endOrse'
some OF our principles when we wrote 70 eahdl-
dates for he Presidency but very few Of them con
deseended 10 state their views bat Evans KEEP
on printing, the bali kept rolling, and although he
NAV become the FITcH rather than the FULTON
of the invention Of a happier plan OF lana sette'
mcnt than government has ever Yet adopted, lel
I delight 10 do him honor | am one OF his earliest
converts Among his disciples, in whole or IN part
we now lind WV. II SEWARD, DANIEL W kBsiEh
LEWIS CAss aud SAM. HovsroS.
TO do The Tribune justice II was the first daily
that saw clearly and enforced ably, the gtesi
truth that one Of the frs, and best OF human IN
movements connected with real progress, was
and Reform. While CROswELL and Cas- were
babblng about party Banks, Bonds snd bo"ine
10 the House Of B0ndage-glorying III ;helr own
svoophsncv. and bctrsyng the millions IA the
Slave power. with Kiss. EVANS kept on issa'
inc his weekly, u his owl, loss and almost resdy
TO stop sometimes for lack Of means but be sowed
the good seed in genial soil. and the increase is
gloriOus.
Give nae the voter sittiag on ms own land, or on
his own town lot-gree and contented--hls children
receiving education, exercise, and wholesome
ioAi-he is the safest depository OF the elective
franchise-and the cares and prlvaticns that rack
aud torture millions OF wreichedy poor people N
in our popuous cities, re and his WI never know
Law Reform and Land Reform Happy homes
and equal laws Oh, may they become abundant
united with use.ol instruction 10 our yoath and q
grateful feeling toward the grea, power that
guides this vast universel 10 protect iuture ages
from the expressions OF less enlightened times l.
render brute violence obsolete, unnecessary TO en-.
able capacity and freedom to 90 hsnd-in-hsnd. sat
10 hasten the time when men shall be "bretlEen,
ana esch toward the other shall count BIS having
lost day when he failed 70 do some good IN II
Perhaps the time has,ens in which the ianilI
that smallest OF human associations, VII be the
only political government necessary among men
Poets have g.owed and eladdened al The ldeA o. :
good time coming Christianity pToclalnis rs
early advent; and the pillow Of death IS made
more soa and downy. if he who rests his heaa
upon i can look back upon lie spent po' m st-@S
ghnE ;or enormous mutations OF Weaith, DOT n
gratifying an iuorliaate ambition ~ occupy high
station. but ia enlpRVO-in Dar<uqfe the dive T.