Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-04-08
COMMUNICATIONS.

That nv shots have taken erect, IS e'lueht
from the g fattering among the pdSeons. why
all this useless curiosity to ferret ME out! why
am nosed from corner to corner, anu from street
10 street? If there is no truth or reason In what
I have asserted-if my charges are destitute CT
facts to sustain them, or my arguments Oh loun-
aation to rest upon, it will be an easy matter to
put them down, and expose me as laeuous'
worthless citizen: but to stand in the highways
and at the cross roads, and cry s. there goes the
Working Man." is not the way to do either the
.ne or the other. Let the Exclusives arm any OF
their great captains or leaders, and send them
forth to do battle in their BEHALF and not ride me
down before they have entered the lists, or gwen
me notice Of their champion. The teeier put
forth by the "Jolnt Laborer," IS understood.
Had | time to Law down my tools, and look over
the books given me in happier days by my good
jather-once read with care, and yet not quite
forgotten-even classical illusions might be re-
:orted, however strange they might seem from
the pen of Working man. Mechanics have
sometimes been known to quote Latin, 1t being
language not exactly erciusire in its nature.
The nsinuation industriously propagated, that
the Editor of the Gazette is concerned. in some
shape or other, with the Working Man, Is en-
tirely gratuitous. If it is designed to make him
the scape goat to bear my sins into the wilder
Il
be sacrificed on my account.
Since my last communication to you, my fel-
low-citizens, one meeting of the Common COun-
ell has been held. to my own knowledge, of which,
through the public paper, YOU have received no
account: How many others there NAV have been,
[ cannot undertake to say. Whether the busl-
ness at this meeting was of so ercltsive nature
as to be beyond your comprehension, or whether
the Council was In secret session, | also cannot
undertake TO saw. But observe, my tellow-clti-
1ens, how the system is carried out, and will con-
tinue to be so, unless you mterpose your autho-
rity. lay an example before you-a small mat
ter to be sure, but large enough to answer every
purpose. 1t has been announced to You in the
official report of the proceedings of Council, that
and were elected Police C0nsta-
bles- Very well.-This latter --, after be-
ing recommended, proposed, and elected, is not
forthcoming; and the same ''official report has
pever vet informed US whether he has declined
whether new election has been held to supply
his place, (supposng this to have been done or
who the person elected is Now, if it is yielded
that it is not necessary to let the people know
these things, then too will almost be tempted
TO yield, and quietly submit to the Exclusives.
Reflect, my fellow citizens, upon this exclusive
system, and YOU will think of it us do.
The object Of my addresses is not d,sorganiza-
ton. wish, by bringing the people forward, to
advance the interests Of the town. | wish those
Who have held. and now hold exclusive power,
to share that power with others, and thus bind
the affections and interests of the town together.
Once set the matter i'll motion, and the town, with
Its present advantages, will, trust, flourish as
the green bay tree by the water side. Rely upon
it, the people must assist before any thing be
done.
4 very sensible writer says: "And is this not
the case with all great enterprises? And are they
not always commenced by the ':poor folks'i
Did the capitalists achieve our revolutions Nay
more, in enterprises of money kind, do we find
them taking the leads Did the capitalists build
our bridges, our factories? answer, no! not till
the first experiment in each Of these kinds of en-.
terprise, had been made by the enterprising, la.
boring class, and demonstration given of theil
practcability. Do they build canals and railroads
in the western country, BY aid of their capitalists
They have not one such. perhaps, among them.
No; the grand engine of the present day, and Of
this country, is the system of association, and, il
rightly used by republicans, it will achieve fol
them wonders, in the physical and moral world
greater than those great capitalists, Kings, Empe
rors and Popes, have ever been able to accom-
plish, from the days of the Pyramids to ours.
A WORKING MAN.
New Arrangement.