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But we have scripture for it that "men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself." The anti-rent troubles which occupied the attention of the state for one hundred and one years began on the Livingston Estate in the Fall of 1751. The tenants first neglected, then refused to pay rent.
The latter circumstance, perhaps, contributed to the digesting of a further scheme of my uncle's, which it is now necessary to state. A re-perusal of his letters and papers had induced him to think the anti-rent movement a thing of more gravity, even than he had first supposed.
"New tribe," he said, after regarding us for half a minute intently; "what you call him where he come from?" "Ja, ja das ist der anti-rent redskins. Haf you seen 'em, Trackless?" "Sartain; come to see me face in bag behave like squaw; poor Injin poor warrior!" "Yees, I believes dat ist true enough. I can't bear soch Injin! might not be soch Injin in world. Vhat you call 'em, eh?"
Votes can be given by the virtuous citizens of both these purlieus, as well as by the virtuous citizens of the anti-rent districts, and votes contain the essence of all such principles, as well as of their glorification. "Do you fancy yourselves on the Hook, or at the Five Points?" demanded Spike, angrily. "Lor', no sir!" answered Simon, laughing at each pause with all his heart.
Whether the last also saw the pretended chief was more than I knew, but he decided to let the conversation go on, rather leaning to the anti-rent side of the question, as the course that could do no serious evil, while it might secure our own safety.
This anti-rent agitation is described by Professor Johnston of Princeton, in the Cyclopædia of Political Science, as "a reign of terror which for ten years practically suspended the operations of law and the payment of rent throughout the district."
The year 1845 brought from Cooper's pen "Satanstoe" quaint, old-fashioned, and the first of his three anti-rent books. Its hero, a member of the Littlepage family, writes his own life-story.
To my boy's mind it looked too big for me; and sometimes I wondered if I should not be able to rent it out to tenants and grow rich on my income, like the Van Rensselaers of the Manor before the Anti-Rent difficulties.
I find a great deal of this spurious history is getting to be mixed up with the anti-rent controversy, facts coming out daily that long have lain dormant in the graves of the past.
They write, and proclaim, and make speeches, as if the anti-rent troubles grew out of the durable lease system solely, whereas we all know that it is extended to all descriptions of obligations given for the occupancy of land life leases, leases for a term of years, articles for deeds, and bonds and mortgages.
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