Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-12-01
THE TRUE ASPECTS OF TIE CONTESTANT or THE
RESULT.

DUt TO- @s's'S' ~ 80
There is one class OF our feilow-citizcns whose bear.
ing and course in the recent political struggle in our
country, deserve 10 be held in perpetual remembrance
| refer to those who work for wages.-lt is true, that
in the general revulsion III business and prices, con-
sequeni upon the bursting of the bubble of specula-
ton, the nominal rate of wages has been reduced
Day laborers do not, IN general, receive as many sfIl-
lings per day as they did when the sitting rooms and
saloons of the Syracuse House were fllcG with a knot
of spectators, who were making from five to fifty
thousand dollars per day, by swapping vacant corner
lots located within the corporation OF Syracuse-and
which will, many of them, remain vacant until long az
ter the sods of the valley rest upon those who fancied
themselves suddenly rich by buying and selling them !.
say, the laborer does not generally receive 81 many
shiIlings per day as he did then; and for months has
il been Numbered in his ears, not only by Wing ora
tors, but by some OF his fellow Citizens of intelligence,
whom he had been accustomed to regard as men Of :.ntl,
that it was the object Of the general Administration 10
reduce his wages 10 the lowest possible point. Messrs.
Buchanan, Tappan and other distinguished members of
the Democratic party, were deliberately falsiaed by i'm
putting TO them sentiments and expressions, which they
over and over again declared they had nevef entertained
or uttered. More than that: In their speeches, rs the
readers of the Standard well know, those eminent De.
mncrats expressed views and opinions directly opposite;
they declared the belief that the Independent Treasury
plan as adopted on the 4th Jnly last, would prove a be-
neft 10 those who work for wages, and argued to show
sehcrein. But still, the system Of falsehood was perse-
vered in by the Wing leaders until the last moment
This fraudulent game was even attempted upon one SO
humble as myself, and the Federal papers promised 10
'keep it before the people, but for some reason known
10 those who control it, failed to do so. | think an in
crease of aboat 30 in the Democratic majority in the
town of Camillus is not n bad commentary upon the
labors Of Inc Federal Assembly candidate on this point.
Bat under all these circumstances, so well calculat-
ed TO confuse and mislead the judgments of those labor
ing men, they stood rs firm as the rocks upon which
some OF them toll, IN the support of the candidate and
measures of the Democratic party. Neither falsehood.
nor sophistry, however artful, could make them believe
that their happiness, or their property, wonld be pro.
NOTED by comforting exclusive and valuable privileges
upon the Wing Aristocracy, to be enjoyed by them, at
the expense of the laboring men themselves! If they
could have been made to believe that then they would.
have voted the Wing ticket. But as the indie pcndens
laborers Of Onondaga believe in equal rights and equal
laws, and as they do not believe in the Federal doctrine,
stake care Of the rich, and The rich ciH take care of III c
moor, they verg wisely voted to sustain Martin Van
Buren, and the independent Treasury.
The farmers have been appealed TO, 10 abandon The
Administration because the prices of produce have IA H.
en-. II isl fact, that there are some farmers, even
among the intelligent population Of Onondaga county,
actually believe that the administration Of Martin
Van Buren, has caused wheat to decline from two dol.
lars per bushcl, to seven shillings. But at the same
Lime, it is passing strange that they wholly or nit 10
give MIR. Van Buren, credit for the high prices ST 1887
md 1888. If they condemn him for iow price 8, why
not applaud him for hish9 The acreage tells well for
The producers-just the same and no more, than it
would with an Independent Treasury and n stable cur
'ency, with uniform prices. Now, those farme rs who
MIR. Van Buren, for low prices, and do not
the same Pertinacity and boldncss, appre We him
or the high prices under his administration, arr guilty
f a ~palpable Inconsistency, and, If | am not m is.aken,
hey nre guilty Of gross injustice.
But what are the facts: In 1880, (says the Demo-
ratio Review the current credit Of the banks of the
Jnion, (bank notes in circulation, and deposites, so
taken t~ogether) amounted to Sfl6,c coo, nOo.-
y the lst of January, 1882, to Sl7O,o o ,O0o. BY the
$, of January, 1885, to $751;, 100000. BY the LIST of
1886, to 1856, 0oO, 1000. By the 1st of Janua.
1887, to 1917 100000. BY May of that gear, they
ere reduced to s242, 600, 1000, Then by the LIST of ia.