Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-11-07
A WORD TO woRKTNcMEN.

| Thanks, eternal thanks 10 the heads and
hearts that formed aud fashioned The fabric
OF our government, all ranks. classes and
conditions Of the people have an equal voice
and an equal interest in its administration.
The Press abounds win exhOftatiOns, ar
gumenls and appeals to the merchant, the
manufacturer and the man Of property To-
| sustain or break down the men and measures
| that now control the deslinies Of the nation.
Let it be our task to address another and a
different class OF commnnity--a class who
have as much at stake Ia the present crisis
rs either of the others--we mean the work.
| ingmcn-the laborers Of the country.
Those who have property Glands and hou-
4 ses goods and merchandiz e-bank stocks
and vested funds, are not alone interested ia
1 the financial schemes and daring ehcroach.
ments of the federal government. These are
! not the only men who are to suffer from the
I overthrow Of the credit system of this state
| and nation. These are not the only men
whose happiness and we'll being are to be
| ieoparded BY the prostration Of public enter
1 prise and the disconiinuance of our public
4 works of internal improye -these are
not the only men who are to be crushed by
the withdrawal of the fostering care of the
state, hitherto extended for the protection
4 and sustenance Of that policy which has
I made New York not only an Empire State,
but a proud, powerful and populous empire
4 of itself. Thousands and tens ofthonsands of
4 humble but worthy citizens who do not own
! n particle of our soil--whose condition in
| life affords them none Of the Injuries of
1 weaith--who are dependant for support
upon the hard earnings of their daily toll
j whose specnlations have only extended to
| the procurement of food and clothes and
shelter for themselves, their families and
children these have as much, yea more at
stake in the present conflict of parties, than
! the wisest and the wealthiest Of the land
4 What is the bankruptcy of the merchant
what the distress Of the manufacturer what
the Losses Of the capitalist the bankrupt,
4 CIV that wrecks the hopes Of the poor man
to the distress that brings hunger and cold
4 and famine to his horne-to the loss that de-
prives him of all that he has-the ability TO
earn a livelihood?
| 1t was not for the rich and the fortunate,
| that the liberty we enjoy was purchased by
4 the blood of our forefathers- was not the
rich and the fortunate alone, who periled
their lives to obtain it. 1t was not for the
protection Of property only, that republican
government was instituted among us---it is
not for the protection of property only. that
the wings of the present day are striving to
restore and pefpetuate the republican prin-
ciples and practices, that our adversaries
have adulterated and departed from. Our
aim is higher, our purpose nobler one
We seek to interpose shield between the
oppressor and the oppressed-between the
few and the many. We seek to oppose the
| rapidly advancing encroachments Of a party
upon the people. We seek to oppose the ty-
ranny that would make the citizen a serf,
and the ruler an irresponsible arbiter of pub
4 lie affairs. We have no faith in. that false
creed, that strives to teach, us that an aristo-
cracy of Office holders, is better adapted to
uphold popular rights and subserve popular
interests, than the great democracy Of the
people themselves. In vain we are told that
the credit system is a pernicious one. We
support 1t, not because It makes the rich rich
er, but because itprevents the poor from be-
ing made poorer. We believe no system to
be wrong, that feeds, and clothes. and shell.
tiers the penniless--that gives employment
to industry--that prevents beggary, and
keeps starvation from the homes of the desti-
tute. We believe no system 10 be wrong,
that enables the day laborer to give an edu-
cation to his little ones-that converts hls.iEl-
tegrity into capital--that tends to equalize.
the social condition-that encourages the eff
forts of the humble, and scatters competence
among the iowliest cottages ofthe land.
Neither can we be frightened by the noisy
) clamor Of our opponents, from 9 vigorous
, prosecution Of our Internal improvements,
while they afford, as they now do, and
! should continue to do to the great laboring
classes, tho necessary means Of obtaining
subsistence. Cruel Is that economy that for
fear Of bnrdening wealth with trihing as
sessnnent, would strip one half of the labor
ing population Of the state of the ability to
D procure bread. Hypocritical is that democ-
! racy. that would starve the people for fear
of impoverishing the Treasury. Yet this Is
the economy and this the democracy OF
parnpered set Of political cormorants, who.
having gorged themselves with the spoiIs OF
office for the last ten years, nre now seeking
to defame the character and retard the pro-
!. gresS of those who have succeeded them IN
: the administration Of our state government
: Workingmen need only contrast the political
!; creed Of the Wing party with that OF our an
Y tagonists, to see at o glance which has the
largest regard for their interests. The first
4 seeks to encourage, the other to depress labor
u the first embraces one country-one cur
! rency-one destiny, for rich and poor--the
!. other inculcates disuniOn and division--gives
y gold and silver to the Government
ated paper to the governed-cherisnes the
interests Of the Office holde s--aDandons the
a interests Of the people, - Troy Morning Mass.
# Fire in lie P;ctou Coal Mines. Slips have
d been received in Boston. from the ONCE OF
n the Mechanic and Farmer. published at Pic
j. tou on the 18th inst. with the information
that on the I7th, at o'clock in the afternoon,
) a Goa, bit Of the Albion mine took fire while
4 BLASTING ana that the flames continued to
spread until syen:ag, when violent explo-
I sion took place. so gIsss conSSs
I sion, that two houses wer Ia, .au !. ~? W:
n foundations, and one Of them DsokSn 70 Pie,
IS ces., Some OF the inmates Of the laiser aao
: not been found at q late hour lri the evening:
he explosion ds hs 81 @ q