Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by W. A. TOWNSEND AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. C. A. ALVORD, STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER, NEW YORK. THIS book closes the series of the Littlepage Manuscripts, which have been given to the world, as containing a fair account of the comparative sacrifices of time, money and labor, made respectively by the landlord and the tenants, on a New York estate; together with the manner in which usages and opinions are changing among us; as well as certain of the reasons of these changes. The discriminating reader will probably be able to trace in these narratives the progress of those innovations on the great laws of morals which are becoming so very manifest in connection with this interest, setting at naught the plainest principles that God has transmitted to man for the government of his conduct, and all under the extraordinary pretence of favoring liberty! In this downward course, our picture embraces some of the proofs of that looseness of views on the subject of certain species of property which is, in a degree perhaps, inseparable from the semibarbarous condition of a new settlement; the gradation of the squat |