Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1840-04-17
YOUNG MEN OF THE U. STATES
Your Democratic Harrison
brethren Of Baltimore send you this Ad-
dress erecting:
dress--Hreeting

We have been appointed coinmiuee
from six hundred OF our fellow-ciizebs, 10
invite you to send delegates 10 the Conyen.
ton to assemble in this place. on the fourth
day Of May merit, and we do, therefore. most
cordially bidding you welcome. strenuous.
ly urge this duty on your attention. and
claim your best efforts 10 secure the election
OF HARRISON AND TYLER. Addressing
ourselves 10 men NO have fsn as well as
argued, and whose minds are informed Of
the daily political history OF our country by
an untiring and most Jealous press we
deem il needless on the present occasion to
enter into long or detailed examination
Of the measures Of our opponents, but letting
il suffice TO judge Of our RULERS by the res.
aiis of their schemes, we ask them what
they have 10 hope from the inspection, and
yon, why you should commence or continue
your political career by extending them
your faver or your votesf
| We ask the You've MECHANIC 10 re.
member the scenes around his boyhood's
hearth in better times. and under other aug
pieces, when the toll OF his iDdusll ions parent
was repaid, and promptly TOO. by hones,
employers; we ask him to remember his
Widespread board, aud the hopes with which
his young mind looked forward to the life
OF an ariizan as one of industry intelligence,
comfort, and wealth and then TO contrast
these scenes and expectations with his des-
eried workshop. his unblotled order book,
his idle journeymen, his undulled tools,
his Government reducing the wages Of la
borers. his empty purse. his ill-fsd family.
the difficulty with which he secures even
the most transient employment. and the yet
greater difficulty with which he procures
payment, even from The wealthy.
We ask the Youso EmIGRANr from
GERMANY or IRELAND, TO remember the
period when embarking from Europe, his
strength and his children his only capital,
ne read over the glowing descriptions OF our
couniry-iis mineral resources, its kindly
soil, its lenient and equal laws, its liberty,
and the certainty that sober industry had
ever promise Of employment on the railroads
and canals, those arteries through which
was 10 flow our nations wealth, the product
Of the soil; we ask him to remember his
hope Of becoming respectable and rich in
the Far West whittier he proposed retiring
with bis earnings on the public works OF
Maryland. Virginia. Pennsylvania and
New York and then 10 contrast these pic
lures and promises with schemes Of inter.
nal improvement abandoned. his country
men and felow-emigrants unemployed, his
children unprovided for, himself a hopeless
idler. often supported. when starvation for.
ces, by the charity Of strangers
We ask the YouNo FARMER to remem.
Der the returns which every Harvest Home
brough, 10 his fu,heI's Golfers. the wealth OF
their humble but contenied cottages, the ex-
peciations which cheered him to labor by
his fathers side at the plough, or in the
woodland. hoping. like him. one day TO be-
come filler Of The soil, and. like him, TO be
nj ease with his iamily around him under
free and prosperous Government; and then
10 contras, these aniicipations with his now
idle or protilless acres, the uncertainty Of
sales and income. The defalca,ions of agents,
the temptations Of idleness leading him from
his dull and unprovided home. where there
is no hope in labor. no prospect Of accumu-
ls'ion for comfort and response in age.
We ask the Young Merchant aud Manu-.
taefurer 10 remember the tide Of prosperity
that flowed so nourishingl " around him but a
few years ago, contributing TO his eduea.
ZION and his pleasures; TO remember his
with its canvass the waves Of every sea, ena-
bling him 10 give constant employment TO
The weather.bea,en sailor TO raise mp poor
but worthy young men in the skill Of sea-
craft. to make the ship-wright busy in his
interests, TO purchase the labor Of the
mechanic, TO be the patron OF literature and
the arts. to acquire a, the highes, prices the
staple products OF the soil. and TO pay for
them trhea due: we ask him to remember
the facility with which he made his remit
tances from Maine 10 Louisiana, in perfee,
security and at trifling cos, The leisure that
was afforded him 10 enjoy society and the
blessings which God showered over the
land and turning from the past 10 the pres
eni, let him contrast these with the realized
scenes of his maiurrr years, under the blight
and mildew of VAN BuRENIsM. Contem-
plating the condition Of his country more
alta glunce than any oshe, of bis fellow
cnizens. because in him centre, more than
in them, the results Of the farmers and
mechanics labor. let him behold sailors
without employ. mechanics sent from him
without work. day-laborers idle. silent ship.
yards, un,enanted warehouses and dwellings,
stagnant trade. deranged exchanges We
ask Kim where are the returns oflast years
sales. or Of the year before what discounts
he has paid on foreign paper in which he
has received his remiiances2 what costs
what fees be has expended 10 his attempts
TO collect outstanding debts ? We ask him