no THE LANDED INTEREST. 



land, are in the main due to them. The vast 

 business which has grown up in the importation 

 and manufacture of manures and feeding-stuffs 

 shows their willingness to enter upon new lines 

 of expenditure which promise useful results. 

 They have a large capital at stake, and they 

 justly desire freedom of action in regard to 

 cultivation, and security for that portion of their 

 capital which, being necessarily incorporated 

 with the soil to produce a future return, may be 

 confiscated wherever it remains unprotected by 

 contract or by law. 



