Background: The Albany Freeholder, an anti-rent newspaper, was published between 1845-1854. No page numbers were used.

(For the Freeholder.)

Mr. Editor—By request, I inform you that at a raising in the town of Roxbury, Delaware county, the usual question was put.

“As we have a good frame,

It deserves a good name.

And what shall it be called?

Anti-Monopoly—Equal Rights to all.”

Then followed some Resolutions, one of which was:

Resolved, That we as one man will stand to our case at the ensuing election—and was carried by 53, over 1 absentee.”

P.S. I lately came in possession of a pamphlet—“Our Natural Rights”—but somewhat surprised that I had not before seen it. It was handed to me by one of our neighbors, an Irishman, who informed me that he had seen you in the “Old Country” and that you now lived at Williamsburgh. I told him you was editor of an Anti-Rent paper at Albany called the “Freeholder.” He said he would have one. His name is John Meehan.

But in relation to your pamphlet: I am satisfied that we ought to have thousands of them, which would sell well at all our Anti-Rent meetings, and would be the cause of converting many to the good cause; especially our neighboring Irishmen. We need all the aid possible, and every means should be used to further our cause. Yours, in haste,

LUMEN SEARLE.

Middletown, July 20, 1845.
 

Transcribed for this website by Terri Nan Ahrens.