The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-02-21

each other Individually and collectively as members of said
Mechanics Society of the City and County of Lancaster
use their endeavos to promote the objects of the said nsu
ADDRESS
TO the Mechanics of the City and County of Lancaster.
From you, eow-mechanics to whose industry this city is
principally indebted for its comforts its beauty and its wealth
from you whose hands raised in the Wilderness and made
bloom the centre of the Garden of Pennsylvania heard
the of dscontent-the language of complaint You
are the working bees of the hive Yon abroad among the
flowers of this beautiful land and laden with honey
increase the general stock. Then why do We Are
drones apong whose swollen bodies grown unwey
upon richest COMBS repose in conened ndoence feed
ing upon their hidden stores +!
If there be for discomfort, let prey upon our
spirits and parayze exertions II there be any thing
wrong, let openly inquire into its extent and provide
remedy Perhaps the evil has been overated and may be
thai the complaint is partial and not we'll grounded.
In all communities there reciprocal dependence, pro-
ducng EXON of interests embracing all trades,
paOns, and classes. There poor that do not
paake in its neutrality-suspicious. rich TO be
above its nfuencebut there ignorant
aware its oblgaons-an it unfortunately happens
that among this latter class the ability commit injury
most generally found
city has long been celebrated for the ingenuity of many
Of its mechanics Her fame for the manufacture of rifles
spread over the United States Her coachbuders
surpassed by any for the beauty of construction and finish of
their carriages The cabinet rival the first mechanics
of Philadelphia for neancss and taste and for excellence
workmanshp-and in all the other branches-C
Builders Taylos Haters, Boot and Shoe makers Fringe
Lace and Carpet Weavers, Plane Makers Sadjes and
ness makers, Silver paers Copper and Tin-smths, White
Sllns BRICK Cnalr-maKefS
es body of Industrious mechanics, not surpassed for know-
edge and experiences their business by equal number
part of the United States Indeed the comparatively
low rates of house-ren and provisions with the
name which county bears of being of the richest
best cultivated and most popuous of country 10 the
UEed Sates have drawn to it of the first work.
men fom the Atlantic cities.
is however, asserted that notwithstanding all these favor
able circumstances several branches suffering for of
adequate support and that of wormen enter
tam serious intentions of seeking employment elsewhere
The assigned that there many individuals among
u.s. who, overlooking the merits and the necessities of their
neghbors and among whom and upon whose
industry the foundation Of their worldly prosperity laid
employed strangers abroad TO build their
ana supply them with cabinet wareboos Shoes hats, c.
This subject of complaint which we can exer-
else no direct power, without mourning the odm of the very
conduct against which take exception We enter
into combination deal with those who do not dea
WIN U.S. without farther extending evil which il is the
uW and the interest of all to reduce: But hold in
hands moral powerwe call to aid numerous ex-
aPes address ourselves 10 the interests of
taken eowctizens, in language of forcble nature
oaked by Inconsistencies against the rnous effects of their
conducthat cannot fail Of having considerable effect
instead of charging individuals with ngrattude, HOSTILE
10 the people among whom they lve though they NAV
nave grown wealthy upon the fruits of the mechanics
"" better will be to point the tendency of their
eonduetprove to them that they njurng their in
ees-show them that every hundred dollars abroad
e purchase Of articles which can be furnished well
nhe so much distracted from the active capital the
Pce-is so much taken from the mouth of indusry-is
e reduction of the general wealth. and operate
INJURY OF trade, manufactures, and the interest of
ac depress the value of real estate and damp the spirit
OF enterprise, if it does destroy altogether.
we require example, let us look at the city of Phlade-
a There associations have been formed for the encour
agehen of native genius and industry. The Franklin Ins
makes yearly exposition of manufactured articles in