The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-10-06
ATTENTION. WORKING. MEN

The gold spoon arstocracy OF Van Burenlsm
not content W it'll making money dearer and labor
cheaper, not satisfied with their sub Treasury
Tariff" which benefits the capitalist, and impo-
yerishes the poor, like the pauper keepers Of the
British alms-houses, seem determined that the
working man shall not even open his mouth,
rither in remonsuance, or for mercy, against the
nGSJrable and hard -hearted DEGREES Of the feudal
and federal lords of the revenue. "Ddre Oliver
Twist ask for more p exclaimed the obdurate
commissioners, when the starving pauper pray
ed for little more of their meagre and misera-
Bic soup. Dare the working man of America
protest against my "tarifi" upon his wages, ex-
CLAIMS Mr.. Van Buren2 And so his panders
and hirelngs, like the parish beadles, are set on
q gag and punish the man who shall presume
70 ask for relief in free America
Working men of the Union Was il so IN
he days of your fathers? Did they not assist in
,uilding up the institutions of your land, and
was not the liberty Of Speech and the rights of
conscience, among them? Have you not the
right to plead among your equals if you please,
ltor who dare say he is your superior y for that
sort of liberty and policy, which will give the
widest scope TO your hands and arms, and the
greatest amount of bread for the least labor
Are you 10 be carried back 10 level with the
seris of Europe, and TO be made sacrifice to
We selfish ambition Of Van Buren,, Kendall and
lelr confederates, without being permitted to
make one single objection Stand up working
'pen of free America. This land is yours-this
Governments yours. Your fathers decreed that
soclety was divided vertcally--not horizontally
each man stands side by side, erect, in the
image Of his Maker, equally free and indepen-
Dent You are not neither layer, a lower stra-
tam, to be piled over trampled down and OPP
pressed by federal arIstocracy of dandy gold
spoon and silk-stockng office-holders No! 1t
not for them to say what We shall eat or what
ye shall drink. 1t is not for them TO say what
BUSINESS We shall pursue, and what wages We
nal receive. II is not for them to tell you to go
tome and work harder and live poorer-not for
hem 10 say you shall not exchange your labor for
,a- or that-not for them TO apportion you
hoops head and pluck for a days hard work
01' FOR them to tell you that you raise too much
me thing, and not enough of another-not for
aunopolizc the blessings of Government for
hanselves, and tell you that you look TO Gov
"r1ment for too muchn-not for them to usurp
}aar power, and control your elective right, and
"folutonize your Government into monarchy.
w. Your own baot-boy is the sceptre of pow
Your own will and judgment are your guides.
mere IS no King over you, but the King of
h.UE'-no tyrant. but necessity. Are We poor
Poverty IS no disgrace. Better far art thou TO be
iiicWcd, O poverty, than the wealth of Caesar
'r"i Kendall, or Of Van Buren,, when that wealth
y formulated by despoiing an honest and
R'ting people, and by spirit which excludes
every motive Of humanity and benevolence
Honest virtuous poverty, is bliss, compared with
Hnpt wealth. II il be as easy for camel ii
s''wough tho eye Of needle as for a rich man
~ enter tho Kingdom Of Heaven what will