New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-27

81 s,e,ch made in Parliament oy neH' O'~'
for ssyipe that there persisted OF starvation O.o
ere I1Ddrfd and siKteeH thousand peTsGHS uu'.uo
H. lsts famine. Nearly as many perIshed 10 tnS
r.,;-e ~ 1899. These are some OF the irigutiul
Its Of the causes have mentioned unue, euS
-, throne of England, and within seven oSyS
I'll of Americs-in country too, WIKI P0Pu
Iotion not exceeding thirty millions Wnuc Nc
Lest authorities sdmit her land % be capao.e =.
sns,sinire in high comfort population OF oNe
Ir0drfd and eighty millions, II the people W.
1lo-re7 IN cultivate tin country, tursnerno'e'
where the higher classes have adVanoou -
jvyn,q BEYOND MEASURE! $1,000
n since Henry VIII. England has advanced
bevound precedent in luxury, useful kno"leuSe,
"a The arts snd sciences, It has been AZ this
fso,fnl expense to life and human comfort through
an almost total neglect OF the wants ana hecesstl
ties of her people While machinery mas uSurpeu
- - S',ovirce Of human labor, and cut OIL tnat
VIC ,f bnn,an subsistence, legislation and land
-Soronolv have cut of the only other-a resort 20
81, bosom of the earth. We are treadlng last
- - C,otstans and, under our present course
Is DoI;cv cannot long boast happier condition
f,r our working poor. Still there has existed no
necessary cause in England why her la3oSlhS
nonuIation should be so wretched ana nlueu res
9oss sncb n reason exist here why ours shouId
IL an There are vet time and opportunity
30 prevent il by removing the unnecessary cause
vLicb uDremoy ed must Nerlta0ty lead 10 IT,
pr, hitherto your policy and practice have Deeh
eli ,Trong Resides the partial and class iegisla-
ton Of which | have spoken, your Puollc lan li
nolicv has been from the beginning 10 encourage
large landed proprietorships ana c." e
80 discourage settlement in small subdivisions Tor
Tnrnoses Of self subsistence. By the ordinance
PPS1rsT with which you began, you required the
Covorror fthe Northwestern Territory TO De an
(,,,rsr of 600 acres Of land the Secretary oVO'
tbroe .Judees each 500, each member oil the Legs
Ietive Council 5OO and each representative @OO'
Won first ordered the lands to be sold at - per
acre. one half in quarter townships, or 9,76Oacre
tvs cts the ott half in sections acre tracts
The sale in half and quarter sections was not
authorized till 1894 and in halt quarter sections,
ar SO. acre tracts not until 1920, down to which
rim, the price was continued at 81 Ii was not
until the 18th Of April, 1882, that the man win sou
only could obtain al acre OF the vast puollc 40
main for it as then only that the sale IN quar-
ter-ouarter sections, or 40 acre tracts, was al
lowed. Even then, or the next year, you re-
ouired the humble purchaser to take an oatn APP
mailing in its terms This is the OATH
DO soemrly swear that the land s intended 10 oe en-
Tered for my personal benefit and notn trust lor doae
bt Isye va, en,ered under the act Of 9Th April, 1882
or under the ACT of ID March 1885, at this any other and
Office OF he United States, any lad In
lions I'm my owp name in the name OF any oIher PeisOn
so help ne God"
Surely one would have thought the country might
have SHARED the humble seeker of homeior nlm'
self or child this last embarrassment and humlila-
ton. From him who had the means and desire
m purchase ten thousand acres with which 70
snacnlate upon the necessities of his FELLOW
CITIZENS, no oath was required but he who pos
sessed but 80 dollars, and who from seeking 10
expend it for land, gave the best evidence OF an
intention to make it home, and from 1t OBTAIN an
independent living, must Sieear, Notwithstanding
that ssch was his design.
Il - oa, IL a
tury to appropriate land by millions OF acres, In
alternate sections to construct channels and aven,
ues Of commerce, and to make the laborlng and
producing settler pay for it is the increased price
which you demanded Of him for the alternates not
appropriated.
But sir, as if all this were not enough to foster
speculation and embauass productive industry,
YOU have for the last four years been running
wanton riot in your legislation to promote the
ends of land monopoly. You have issued millions
upon millions in amount Of assignable Mexican
bounty land warrants, operating, not TOR the bene'
fit of the soldier, but OF capital, as paper medi-
UNI with which TO monopoiZe on speculation the
feirest portion of the peoples heritage. AS II
this were still mot enough, last session you au-
thorized the issue in warrants of unknown mill
lions more and because you did not make these
negotiable, mad Jury RACES among the horde oil
night besettng, hound tongued agents and specu,
lafors throughout the land and members, as If
session to cut loose this last and only security TO
the soldiers boon, that it, too, may be coaxed or
torn from the hand OF war-worn need But above
and hey oud all as the very browning thought OF
wrong and folly-as If determined to plunge the
country into Russian.labOr bondage-sOme are
now entertaining, with serious complacency, the
hdeOus project of giving, for few cents per acre.
OVER ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF ACRES TO ONE
MAN, to "eR0bie" him TO make a railroad IA ter
rito'y equal in extent to the States of New York,
PEI nsylvania, Virginia, and Delaware
Sir, if | read Alright the signs of the times, the
wmkrg masses OF the people have resolved that
you shall change your policy and practice-that
you shall partly turn your cares from the excu
sive thrall OF luxurious incident. They are dis
contented and unhappy. Aside from present care
and W ant, and that sense OF dependence and sub.
lection with which your class discrimin nations have
depressed them, they feel and know-they can
not close their eyes to the fsct-that the policy
you are now pursuing pOrtends gloomier day in
the future for them or their children. Already,
where most crowded, the more favored are but
able to obtain through the week what at its close
will procure the meanest comforts for their fami.
lies If sickness overtake them, or misfortune
come, OF if for few days work cannot be had,
real restitution and suffering, or nsolvable debts
are the result. If they would 60 West, to the
public landslide asylum Of refuge and distress
and have the present means to make the journey,
they have no more or, If they have little more,
knowing the expense and time OF putting in even
a small fern, they know that little will be ex.
hausted; they despair Of ability TO buy the land
when it shall come into market. They know that
when their first stock is gone it will require all
their esrnings to support an increasing family;
that for some years they can lay up nothing to
cave their labor and Improvements from the blood
lured grasp of the Spectator. They consequently
remain where they are, toiling on TO an uncertain
destiny, with no consolation from the past, few
comforts or enjoy ments for the present, and less
bat more gloomy hopes for the future. They see
that machinery is fast pushing them from the
stage Of human labor-thst already their bread,
to some extent, depends upon the price Of ma
chine products, and that price upon the amount of
tribute tariff they themselves are forced to pay
TO keep it up AS a substitute, they are offered
no resource in the fifteen hundred millions Of the
Public Land but are compelled to meet the Ger.