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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anti-rent party. (search)
90, and when, in 1839, Stephen Van Rensselaer, who had allowed much of his rent to remain in arrears, died, the tenants refused to pay rents to his successor, disguised themselves as Injuns, and for ten years carried on a reign of terror that practically suspended the operation of law and the payment of rent in the entire district. The attempt to serve process by military aid, the so-called Helderberg War, was unsuccessful. In 1847 and 1849 the anti-renters showed a voting strength of 5,000, adopting a part of each party tickets. In 1850 the legislature directed the attorney-general to bring suit against Harmon Livingston to try title. The suit was decided in Livingston's favor, November, 1850, but a compromise was effected, the owners selling the farms at fair rates, and the tenants paying for them. Most of Rensselaerswyck was sold, and of Livingston Manor, which at one time contained 162,000 acres of choice farms, only a small portion now remains in the possession of the family.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Southern conventions in 1850. (search)
s to the controversy which it is the paramount duty of Congress to avoid. 13. Resolved, that this convention will not conclude that Congress will adjourn without making an adjustment of this controversy; and in the condition in which the convention finds the questions before Congress, it does not feel at liberty to discuss the methods suitable for a resistance to measures not yet adopted, which might involve a dishonor to the Southern States. The Nashville convention reassembled in November, 1850, and adopted the following preamble and resolutions: We, the delegates assembled from a portion of the States of this Confederacy, make this exposition of the causes which have brought us together, and of the rights which the States we represent are entitled to under the compact of Union. We have amongst us two races, marked by such distinction of color and physical and moral qualities as forever forbid their living together on terms of social and political equality. The black r