The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1827-05-24

IN INC lRSt week VI march, 4 MeCliiI-
ics Meeting" was held at birmingham, Eng
land The following extract is from the apecch
Of the gentleman who opened the meeting
'sIn tic first half year Of 1926, not less than
200 prudent and sisllfu trade smen anl merchants
were reduced TO bankruptcy These untorc-
seen and arbitrary alterations in the currency re-
corded against them q sentence OF pauperisn and
loss Of characters and against the working class
Is sentence OF starvation. cannot express but
every man VINO hears ne can appeal to his own
feelings To tell, the agony OF the struggle, the
VAN hopeless struggle, these victims made for
the preservation OF fortune, character, and lite.
Meanwhile the capitalists, the fundholder, the
landholdci and the annuitant, profit the ruin
otthe industrious aud productive classes. They
stand ready with their masses OF wealth, to pur-
chase the productions Of the laboling classes at
the loNe est chh ot prlce, to which they are al5!-
trirly reduced, and the aGriculturist as well as
the manufacturer, is sacrificed to their power =
1t ina. beer strongly argued that ii is better to
return TO the level Of tou price than to thc h'gt
level, and that by the rise and value Of commod-
tics tie laborer is njurcd, AS tie rise and value
I OF his wares only follows at a distance. | per.
\ fectly agree that his wages do only follow that
rise Al distance; lit is IN fact injured and sacr-
feed by 81 fluctuations; hut when the pro
duet d! his labor rises, he ut least continues en-
I plpyed, lis confidence III himself ana the conf
IdcuCc OF hs master are maintained, and his wa.
gcs quickly follow the lise in The value of goods.
hut ia the fall hia ruin is rapid end complete
he gets no employment at all, AND when the pri-
ccs seem to laN, setlc it is but slowly that the
manufacturer ventures again To employ him, or
that his confidence III himself returns.
! "rhe fall in wares /, sooner felt where very
pO,. ciful n.chiacty IS ,tnplGyei, Us III Manchcs
ter Not that 1t fny oplulon that machinery q
il itself inuiioui Il thc people; on tie contrary
ari sure j, i most c.cpi4tcd TO advance theii
happ,ness ana to uaulu,ly Their comforts 1t i.
oi.iY when the channels u Ike distributions o
is hcnettg ave iutcricred with, that II hccome!
more sudi ienly dcatraetNe. AS an instance o
this need only SAY, thAt it ia AN unlcnablc ant
notorious fact, that mcn in the district OF Man
chester are actually to,lln~ sirfffn hours d 6Gy
fir Ire miseraLie gjtfncc of3s, -. G 'pech, Ant
think not fellow tu"Aa;,en, that tins Will no
spread itself herr; it is fast approaching though
with silent stcps-.-ir"sh hands are daily turnce
out Of employ, and wages arc greatly reduced
know men lately N my employment, ~ht
, could earn Is. per week, who are now working
for the parish al IS. per week, andto Obtain cvci
! that. they must put forth strength almost super
human There is one man who has to MAINTAIN
himself n wife, and three children, under iy,
wears OF age on less than 10 Cd, per day, and t
. obtain this, he has to wheel one hundred weigh
c and half Of sand Is miles up a steep hill, anl
$ return the same distance with tho empty barrow
ia species Of labor more severe to him his being
= unaccus.omcd to it, and from the want of ncccs
sary food TO recruit exhausted nature; after thl
toll he must return home, to starve with his witt
I and children; and this you well know is by NJ
means solitary case. There is another instance
of a man lately in my employment who is en-
IL,
:; lings per week from the parish. mention thes'
facts to prove, that if any time is proper for th
e laborer to assert and endeaycr to regain hi
5 rights it is now; for the minds Of men are gradu
: ally led to bear their sutlcrings with compare
tive comp.accncy; then il is that they sink int
J. seryility, and it becomes very uncertain whethc
y they will arouse to a sense Of duty"