The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-10-30
WORKINGMEN! READi
From the Piiisburg Huge Pau.

BEAsTLYINsULT TO THE woRKINGMEN
1t has always been a leading trait of the British
Wing party to heap the grosses insults on the la
boring portion of the country, and to accuse them
of every vice and immortality in the catalogue of
crime. Their assumed decency has not deferred
them from making the most obscene and vulgar
charges against leading Democrats: their pretended
piety could not counteract their disposition to
SANDER and blast the regulations of highminded,
honorable men, nor could their Indifferent political
principle permit poor men to enjoy the blessings Of
free government. We have frequently published
to the world their vile insults and sneers ut the
Farmer, Mechanic and laboringman, but the most
infamous falsehood that they have dared to utter
we find in late number of a leading wing paper,
published in the City ofNew York. Here it is,
and we ask all wOrkingmen; no matter what their
politics may be-to read it attentively, and say
whether their liberties would be secure with the
party that insults them, even while it is soliciting
their votes-We copy from the Empire Slate"
"LUXURY AND EXTRAvAGNCE."
The Loco Foco Press is perpetually ravng about
the Injuries, cxtravaganccs and bankruptcies Of
our wing merchants, and strongly proclaim that no
virtue is to be found apart from the laboring class,
but we firmly believe that it is open to demon
straton, that the boot is on the other leg, and that
LaJorcrs in their ,cay are more given to luxnres &
eytravnganccs than the wing merchants. For in
stance L.ABORER THAT O.NL Y E.aR.NS
FIVE DOLLARS A WEEK, wiH get drunk
fire times as often as II MERCHANT VINO
EARNS Il HUNDRED, and then laborcr
must have his half holidays, and his "blue Mon
days" and fifty other sort of days to devote to
FESTIVITY md IDLE.NESS, whereas
the merchant is hard to his desk, and bales, &C.
from one years end to the other, only the
fifty days which are allotted for reposc and
prayer?"
Such is the deliberately expressed opinion of one
Of the Jackalls of the Wall-sreet spectators The
"wotking classes" who have been plundered and
trOdden down by band Of ihsolcnt upstarts the
real producers of wealth, who, by the schemes Of
bank spectators nave been forced to pay double
for all the necesaries of life, and compelled to toll
through the world for bare subsistence while the
profits of their labor are squandered in iotous and
luxurious living by bank favorites, are now to be
told by the insoent tools Of federalism, that they
''get drunk fire times as ofien' as their would be
masters, and that their time and money are spent
in keeping "blue Mondays" and other days to
'festirity and idleness."
Could more gross or wanton falschood be ut
tered than this slave of the British Wings has sent
against the honest moral and intelligent working
men of the United States. We hurl the black
calumny back to the bloaed ruilians, who to cx-
cuse their own beasality have dared to publish
the whole laborng community of America as
drunkards: and we defy them to show that the
warmest and most jealous friends of temperance,
morality and religion, are not found among that
portion of society whom the federal nabobs term
the "iaboring classes"