Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-10-15

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was veiv particular to ind out how the
laborers Jared there. 1t was Il subject, that
deeply interested me, and | made partcu-
lar INQUIRIES to find out all about it.
wanted to know every thing about it. And
if | went away from my country an Amer
lean, | game home 100000 times more an
American, to the back bone, than l was
when LETT here. immense cheerlng)
On the Odd of September, last year,
was in the south of England; and found
the price Of labor there for good man was
seven shillings a week, and he has to board
himself and his family. In the centre
of England, which is the richest and best
part OF the country, and where the soil L.
more productive, in the midst Of the har-
vest time, good man can only get eigh-
teen pence day, or about 80 cents day,
and board himself and his family. In the
south of Scotland he gets no more, and IN
the north he doesn't get so much.
And in the midst OF the best season of
the year for laborers, have seen thousands
ofthem going along the road side with their
sckIes on their shoulders, DESTROYS of work
ing for Is. I'd. day, and couldn't get ii.
That's labor in other countries-that's Ia
Dor in Europe. Do we want to come to
that? Cries of ''no, no"
And now wha, wish you to do is, not to
take my opinions or statements for this;
but to 90 home and examine the subject
for yourselves. Aud you will see that the
Sub-treasury' leads to this. Its friends say
it does. Mr.. Tappan says the wages OLA
Dor must and ought to como down to eley-
en- cents day; and they think must be
disposed to thank him for little who will
thank him for that But go home and in
quire all about this. Don't take the state
nent of that old aristocrat, Mr. Webster,
for truth, unless you find it so.
There is not more thoroughly indepen-
dent set of people in the world than the
community in this same county of Sui
folk. Here you are all of you farmers.
You have your fine lands, stocked with
cattle, your woods filled with game, your
broad and beautiful bay; and when you
have no desire to plough the land, you can
take your boat and plough the ocean
Immense cheering, aud cries of 'tue!"
"true"
1T is true that your soil is not so fertile
as that o. Michigan, Kentucky, or some of
the western and southern States. But you
have one great advantage which they have
not. You are near great market, and
that market must be supplied. If pnces
are bad, it is true that you suffer little.
But prices are never so bad as to distress
any of you, on account of the many ie-
sources which You have to aval! yourselves
of
Well. in this respect you are fortunate,
and so well situated as you are. There is
II ,,,to fho$'h he ,if
fered, and that is still suffering so deeply;
and there are the great manufacturing DIS
trlcts that are suffering. | do not mean
merely the large cotton and wolIen manu-
factories Of the Easiern States, but the
small ones scattered all over The Northern
States, where they make shoes and hats,
carriages and harnesses. All those are
completely cut up, aud their business Is
gone.
And now, my friends, it is for you, as
you Value not only your own prosperity, |
but the welfare of the whole community |
the prosperity of your neighbors and fell
low citizens, to say whether he don't wish
10 see all portions and classes ofthis great
country l1our,shing and happy. Aud then
look at the sub-Treasury scheme, and say
if it is a scheme under which all classes Of
tho community can flourish.
Enquire carefully aud fully into the state
of business all over the country; ascertain
what has caused all the prostratlon in trade
and commerce. For | think you hear and
see much more of the storm than you feel
Yourselves. Providence has kindly pro-
teced you from the violent changes that |
have affected all these communities in the |
couutry whose prosperity depends upon the |
production and disposal Of some one great
article, as the cotton and tobacco Of the |
South or the wheat of Ohio and the West |
How fortunately are you no, situated
You raise all that is necessary to supply !
your wants yourself You live WE'LL be- /
keve You have sort Of universal taste for
that kind ofthing, by what | have seen
since have been amongst you. Laugh
ter and cheers) You send the surplus of
your produce to market Remember, on !
ly the surplus. If prices are high, that
affects only the surplus. fthey are low,
still it Is only the surplus that is affected.
And if prices are down one-half, only the
surplus feels that fall
But it is not so with the cotton Of the
South. The planter can't eat 1t, nor lie
can't drink it, nor he can't smoke it. He
has to sell the whole of it; and if prices
fall, the fall runs through the whole. And
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