Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-01-19

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To the Laborers and Mechanics or Nash,,
Feltoe Laborcrs ami Mechanics.
Fhcse are cm7hatieaify HARD TINES for
ust 9 may be well enough for the rich
c"pita'fFs who lives upon the exhorbitant
interest which he is receiving from those in
embarrassed circumstances, and upon the
rents which arc pay him: but it is sore dis.
iressing TO rs who depend upon the stocat Of
me 6row for the bread which s~ustains our.
selves and our families A few months
since we had employment enough-our Ia.
Dor was IN great demand, and commanded
The best price. Noe VIZ 60 about almost
Begging for labor, that we nav not starvei
Some have been glad to work for their
board l-and this state Of things seems to
be every day growing worse and worsel-
those enterprising men, who once gave life
10 business, and employment to so many Ia.
boring men, are failing rapidly one after a.
mother, and it is impossible to tell where
these troubles will end.
IL seems there are two great political par.
lies among us-the DEMocRArIc PARTY
ana the MING PARTY. They both pretend
10 account for this great distress and as we
mechanics and laborers are not candidates
Tor the loayes and fishes of Office, and are
not Office seekers, but are FREE and iNpr-
PENDENT VOTERS, il becomes us to sift both
sides thoroughly, and with candor and i'm
paniality-lest in casting our votes, we
best Interests.
We the undersigned, having been in
times past friendly TO the administration Of
General Jackson, have at length been in
duced by the present DISASTROUS state ofthincs,
to examine the subject fuIly,-and we have
endeavored TO do it fairly, and with a desire
to know The whole truth of the matter and
Notwithstanding our former prejudices, we
have arrived AT the solemn conviction that
our present troubles are owing chiefly TO the
leading measures of the administration
We therefore ask the candid attention of all
our fellow laborers and mechanics to some
OF the more important reasons which have
been satisfactory TO us,
And in the first place, we suppose it is
perfectly apparent TO every body, that the
people Of New England depend principally
upon their manufactures for their prospect.
ty. While the Southern and Western States
supply us with cotton, -four, and their vari.
Gus other productions, they depend almost
entirely upon New England for their
cloths, their boots and shoes, their hats,
furniture, carriages, harnesses. and the ten
thousand articles Of Yankee ingenuity
which are got up among us. New England
is IN fact the great WORK sHoP of the U.
States. and has been successfully competing
with old Englandl 1t follows therefore
that while we can SELL these articles OF our
manufactures to the Southern and Western
States, the times are prosperous-the labor
of all classes of people will be in demand,
and wages will be high. And it is equally
true, that when the time comes that these ar
ticles will NOT sell, the consequence ineyita.
bly, will be, that all manufacturing es,ab.
lishments stop, and all their laborers and
mechanics of course are thrown out of en-
ployment. These laborers must of course
find some other mode of subsistence. and
consequently the price of all labor wiA be
reduced.
Now if the Government, by destroying
the currency OF the country, have rendered
it almost impossible for the Southern and
Western merchants TO come and purchase
our manufactures and our goods, is it not evil
dent that MiS as lie reason why so many of
our manufacturing concerns have been o.
bliged to stop, and so many laborers have
been thrown out of employment We be-
lieve following facts will convince any rea-
sonable man, that the Government hare
thus destroyed the currency, and have there.
By mainly brought about these distressing
times.
Before the War was commenced upon
the Banks by the Government, it was as
easy to send money from Boston to New
Orleans, or any other city in the West, as it
is nor to send money from Nashua to Bos-
ton. The Boston merchant had only to pay
his Massachusetts Book Bills into the
Branch Bank in Boston-get his check on
The Branch Bank in New Orleans-lhus
send his check or draft 10 New Orleans by
maitland then his money was transmitted
with all possible despatch, and without risk
or expense TO any party,
But how has it been for many months
back2 1t is an undoubted fact that it has
cost from ten 10 tteenty dollars, to send a
hundred dollars from one part OF the Union to
distant parts; and that in many instances it
has been impossible 10 transmit funds, at any
price. And why has this happened, at a
time too when money has been comparative
ly plenty in all parts Of the Union? We
believe his TO be Tie reason sit is because
the bank bills of one part of the country
will not pass in other parts. If the Western
merchant brings his Western Bank Bills TO
Boston, the Boston merchant will not re-
ccive them either for debts or for goods -
for he knows nothing about those Bank
Bills, And it is notorious, that many mer-
chants in New York and Boston stopped
payment, when they had al The same lime in
the Southern and Western Banks funds