New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06


make their homes happy-the great insentive !, IN
duftry frugahy and sobrie.y IL Is snch habits alone
that give security 70 government ana form Inc feh
elements Of national greatness and power.
National disasters are not the growth OF day, but
che fru. of lOrg years Of innsiice and wrong. The
seeds planted by alfe, perLicous legsatioD often re-
qpe ages terminate and rpen into their harvest OF
ruin and DEATH The most pernieons OF all the bslefn
seeds of national existence 10 policy that degradss tic
labor. Whenever agricultural labor becomes diehon-
orable il will Of couse be confined 70 those who have
no interest in the soil they TILL aud when the laborer
ceases 10 have any interest IN the land he cultivatee
he ceases TO have stake in the advancement and good
order of society for he has nothing to l1se rohne TO
defend nothing to hope for. The associations OF an
independent freehold minenty calculated TO emo
bic and elevate the possessor. Ii Is the hfesPrng OF
manly national character, and OF generous patriot
iim-a patriotism that rushes 10 the defense Of the
country and the vindcaton OF lite honor, with the same
zeal and aaerty thai 1t guard the hearhstone and the
fire SIDE. Wherever Freedom has unfurled her banner
the men who have rallied around to sustain ar uphold
il have come from the workshop and the field, where
jn ed TO heat and 70 cold and TO all the
of the seasons, they have acquired the bardaooa ne
cessary endure the risf and prvanons OF the camp
An yeomanry, scattered over our Vatt 40
main is the be and surest guarantee for the perpetu
ity of Liberties; for their rmH are tho CITADEL OF
nations power, their hearts the bulwarks oil liberty.
Let the public domain beD, be set apart as the pail
uony of labor by preventing its absorption into large
Estates by capital, and its consequent cultivation by
"enants and slaves instead Of independent freehold
The proposition to change our land policy 80 as to
accomplish desirable result, by securing to the pio
nser home on the public domain at the bare cost o
survey and rsnffer Is often rejected by those who
have given bnt little thought to the subject, AS legehng
and agrarisn. When was there ever an effort made,
SINCE the world begau 20 wrest from power its Ill got
ten gains to restore TO his inslienabe rights,
but il has been met with the shout of leveling and agra
ran That s the alarm cry OF the devotee OF the past
with which he strives to prevent all reforms or IN
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wark old abuses entrench Themselves and atiemp TO
maintain their position by hnIng against every ssA-
antterms of ooum al reproaeh made 80 by the color.
ing OF the adbereDts Of prerogave and power. Unui
within very recent period, chronicers of the race
hsye beeD for the most part sycopbants OF poyer and,
teng the allies Of the State, have CLOSED over s CO.
temponneous despi tsm and wrongs, while they have
written down the true defenders Of the rights Of the
psojl and the champions Of honorable labor as the
outlaws of history.
Because the Roman Glscchi proposed 10 elevate the
Roman citizen by 6ipnifysg his labor and restoring
him to the riehts of which lie had been unjusty de-
pryed by the ogsrcby who controlled the Slate, their
name was made synonymous with iniamyi az arch
dsubers OF all tbat was good In society, TIL Medium
tore off the vail of two thousand years Of o0oIuy
ard vndicaed TO future times their memories as true
defenders of the rights OF the people, and adyoc es
Of the best interests and glory of their country Sncb
has been she fate Of the worlds reormss. Is 1t not
time thai we learned wisdom from the chronicles OF
the past ard ceased blind reverence for customs or
institutions becauEe OF their gray age = Why should
the American state adapt the Legislation OF
the country to the development of it's material re-
sources the promotion OF ts industrial interests, and
thereby dignity ts labor, and make strong the prime
elements OF rational p0werl
Let this vast domain then, be set apart and conse-
Grated forever patrmoDy TO the of toll; close
yCor Land Office forever against The speculator and
thereby prevent the capital OF the country from seek
ing that kind Of investment, of absorbing the hard
earnings of labor, without rendering an equivalent.
While the aborer is thIs crushed by this system esab
ljshed by the Government which abstracts
amount from his earnings for the benefit Of the specu
lstor in addition 10 all the other disadvantages that
beset the unequal struggle between the bones I'd
sinews of ard dollars aud cents, what wonder is
that misery aud want often ait at his resde, and
penny and sorrow surround his deathbed
While the pioneer spirit goes forth into the wilder
ress, scratching areas from the wild beasts, and
beq.aihiDg them legacy 70 civilized man, let not the
Government dampen his aTdor and palsy his arm by
lsgi,ation that places him in the power Of soolese
capital and graspDg speculationi for upon his wild
battlefield these are the only foes that hs stern
heart and right arm cannot vanquisb.
STATEMENT Ghong e dre0s Of ne ererai and
TerTies The amount Of Land disposed Of by sale and
ofh,rpe and he Hnsod and zndposed tAs
3vn Of June 1851: