The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-06

made There outrsges would have heeu quietly
submitted to ial he as es ors done simply
their duty 10 g matter, which was to make
fair just, and equal assessment All tie pro-
pert, no ders tesire is On co pitabIe assessment
ana that they re determined to hava Severa'
me- etiDgs have cen held by parties interested,
before tie con mittee Of the Comnoa Council
appointed 30 7, ceive evidence, ami The state.
ments made showed mot conclusively that the
as,essors were Their grossly ignorans OF thelr
duties or had other motives than desire to do
Justice 10 all IN the levy made. Lots side By
SIDE, Of equal value, differ SO widely in the as
sessment that it is impossible to believe that
he assessors Lossess.d sufficient knowledge 70
act undo, stand.ngly in the matter, to say the
least. Tpere perhaps never was case where
the Interference Of he Common Council was
! more necessary, and we hope it will receive
from tlat body the consideration its imp ,rtaace
demands. All tie property holders wait is
justice. That they must have
WING PoLrrIcs IN ILINoIs.-The wings in the
Sac If Illinois have fallen upon the same
aoti-savery platform as their brethren in Mas
sacbussetts, Vermont, Michigan, and, in short,
| in all the other Northern STATES. AT a recent
meeting in Kane county, they resolved, among
| other things
70 restole Nebrs Ska Karas to the position Of free
| Territories
To The repeal AMI entire sbrcgation Of the fugitive
TO resric. slavery to tho States in which It exists
To prohibit The admission Of any slave States into
To exclude slavery from all territories over which the
| general government has exclusive jurisdiction.
md to resist the requirement OF any territory
unlss abe prohioton of slavery therein forever shall
have heen provided fer
Resolved That the ssBlack Laws" Of this State are
unconstitutional inhnmsn and barbarous, and It shall
principal object Of this organization TO their
iepeai
This is going the full measure, and little
over, Of the Saratoga anti slavery coalition. In
| fact, from Maine to Minnesota, the wings have
substantially taken this ground, with some
little variation upon native Americanism, aud
the Maine liquor law. 1t only remains, there
| fore, for the whig convention for the State of
| New York to determine whether the free
sellers and abolitionists shall come over
to the wings, or whether the wings shall 60
over to the Saratoga party. Their principles
are the same; the only difficulty is in the CLASH
fication of the mercenaries in reference to the
spoils. Upon that rock we shall probably
have another split at Syracuse. We look for
it. The very air seems. to be charged with
party changes and political revolutions
/
| PRE-EMpTI0N IN KANsAs--NorICE TO SET
| rIERs.-Now that the current of emigration
has fairly set in for Kansas, it would be well
for settlers, in locating their claims, to bear in
mind the following Judgment of the Attorney
| General, adopted by the Department Of the
Interior as The law -
In pe opinion is that the act of Congress gives
pre- tmption only In such those lands ceded not
requir. FIRST offered public sale that the lands
ceded by the Deawares Iowas, and Weas under condi
sn Of ntss being offered a. puSc sa e are no more
the military reservation OF Fort Leavenwortn that
lands cannot be taken up by settlers unasr claim
will merely voia in y and will confer no right nov
hereafter, which to demand the of patent
from the Commissioner Of Public Lands. Moreover it
will be the duty Of the President to maintain by force Ii
need be- the lshted faith Of the United States in this
behalf
This simply means that all squatter rights
on the lands ceded by the Delawares, Iowas,
and Weas, previous to the offering of such lands
| at public sale, will go for nothing. We pre-
sumo, however, that unless these lands are
| speedily offered at public sale, they will in
evitably fall under the fundamental law OF
squatter sovereignty. The administration must
wait upon the emigrants if it would save
trouble. They will not wait the tsrdy action
Of the administration, or avoid good location
under the mere opinion Of the Attorney
General
DISTRACTIONS IN THE STREETs.-Some of these
days, we shall all be shocked by hearing that
General Scott, or Madame Grisi or some
honored citizen whom we all love and esteem