Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-06


At = mass meeting Of the citizens Of Sylvia
MIA, Lucas county, Ohio, convened for the pur-
pose Of considering the Nebraska bill OF Sena-
tor Douglas, Rev. ]. Mcbride (Wesleyan) was
appointed Chairman, and H. White, Secretary
After listening to q spirited and pertinent ad-
dress from the Chairman, and to very gener-
al and decided expression of opinion by various
other gentlemen, against the passage OF said
BILL the preamble and resolutions were adopt
ed, with scarcely dissenting voice
Whereas the design of all Governments is to
secure TO man his natural rights; and whereas,
to obtain this object and to perpetuate to their
posterity tho benefits of civil and religious lib
erty, our revolutionary fathers fought, and
bled, and died; and whereas Slavery is the an
tagonast Of Liberty; and whereas the design OF
legislation il to extend Freedom, and not Sla-
very therefore,
l. Resolved, That we view with distrust and
alarm the encroachments Of the Slave Power
upon the FREQ territory of the United States,
contemplated in the bill Of Senator Douglas,
and that we enter our solemn protest against
it, and that we will oppose, by all legal and
constitutional means, its extension into said
| territory; and to this end we pledge ourselves
| to vote only for known and tried friends of
| Freedom, who are known to be committed to
| this object, and whose position upon the Sla-
very question is neither ambiguous nor equiyo-
| cal
2. Resolvsd, That the mission If they ever
had a mission) Of tho old Parties, Wing and
and Democratic, by the passage of the Com
promise Of 1850, and by re-endorsng the same
in 1882 is ended, and that they are soon to be
laid upon the shelf; and that those Northern
doughfaees who have betrayed the interests of
their constituents deserve, as they will receiOe,
their united condemnation and Reproduction.
8. RESOLVED, That the proceedings Of this
meeting be sent for publication, to tho Nation
al Era New York Tribune, and Michigan
Free Democrat H. WHITE, Secretary.
Sylvania, O., Feb. 20, 1854.
THE IMPROVEMENT OF IRELAND--The great
| famine of 1847 brought things, as is well
| known to q crisis in Ireland. An almost total
revolution in the landed system was the conse
quence The large number Of deaths, COM
bined with the vast emigration, and followed
up by the law for the compulsory sale of in
solvent estates, led to decrease in the number
Of email holdings corresponding increase in
large farms, and Q general Improvement in
| agriculture.
In l849, 1850, and 1851, these changes pro-
| crossed with great rapidity. They have con-
| tinued throughout the two following years. and
are still, according to all accounts, going on
We have now before US some statistics on this
subject. From these, it appears that holdings
under one acre decreased fifteen per cent. in
1852; and that the holdings under fifty acres
decreased, more or less, also. But farms above
| fifty acres increased in number. The increase,
indeed, in farms of between fifty and q hundred
aores, and between one hundred acres and
two hundre1 was comparatively enormous
Larger farms did not increase 80 fast in num-
| ber
These are gratifying facts. II has been as
serted that the change in Irish lands has led
to the utter extirpation Of the yeomanry, and
the substitution Of titled landlords farming i'm
mense tracts by hired laborers entirely. These
statistics prove the reverse. They show that
farms of a proper sizo have increased most, to
the exclusion Of overgrown farms, as we'll ss
OF potty holdings. There are. bright days yet
we hope, in store for Ireland.-Pha Ep. Bui