North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1841-03-24
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ADDRESS
OF THE LONDON WORKING
MEMS ASSOCIATION TO THE
PEOPLE OF CANADA.

Friends in the cause oi Freedom Broth
ers under Oppression-and Fellow Citizens
living in Hope
We have witnessed with delight the no.
BILE spirit you have evinced against despot-
10 ordinances and tyrant mandates of your
oppressors Inspired by the justice of your
cause, you have nobly begun the glorious
work oil resistance. May the spirit Of per-
severance inspire you onward Till the base
ly coneocted Resolutions are withdrawn,
your constitutional wishes respected, or
your independence secured by charter
wos by your bravery!
When freemen stand erect in the con-
seious pride Of thinking right and acting
well, their honest front will often times
scare ths tyrant from his purpose, or check
his mad career; for experience has taught
him that liberty in smock lrock is more
than q match for tyranny in armour; but If
they chance to crouch submission, or yield
but q hairs breadth to his wish, their
doom is fxrd-for tyrants delight to crush
the yielding snppliant slave.
Onward therefore, brothers, in your
s.ruggle-you have juslice on your side,
and good mems aspirations that you win,
Nay, we trust that the wide-spreading in
formation of the present age has so far en-
lightened the minds and expanded the SYM
pathies of most classes OF men, that even
the British soldier(cut Of and secluded as
he 10 from society, Jon turning to The an
mails OF alrocious deeds, more especially
those which characterize its career OF cru.
city against American liberty, when the
savage yell, the iomahawk, and the scalp
Jag knife were the frightfnl accompani-
ments Of the bayonet, must blush for his
country and his profession.
Yes, friends, the cause of Democracy
has truth and reason on its side, and kna-
very and corruption are alone its enemies.
To justly distribute the blessings of
plenty which the sons of industry have
gathered, SO as TO bless without safety all
mankind--to expand the blessings Of edu-1
cation to The divinely mental powers of man
which tyrants seek TO mar and stultfy-to
make straight the crooked paths of justice,
and humanize the laws--to purify the
world of all the crimes which want and lust
OF power nurtured--is the end and aim Of
the Democrat: TO act the reverse of this is
the creed and spirit OF aristocracy. Yet Of
this latter class are those who govern ma
sions-men whose long career Of vice too
efien forms a pathway TO their power
who, when despotic deeds have stirred
their subjects up 10 check their vlliany
declaim gsinsr'sedition, talk of 'sdesign-
ing men, 'and impiously invoke the sttri-
butes OF Deity TO scare them from their sa-
cred purpose.
II gives US great pleasure 10 learn, friends
that you are not so easily scared by proc!a-
nation law-by the decree OF jnnio agai-
INST whole nation. Surely you know and
feel, though Governor Goslord may not,
"that a nation never can rebels For
when the liberties Of a million of people
are pros,raied to the dos,, at the will OF a.
grasping. despicable minority-when an
attempt is made to destroy their represen.
ta,ive rights, the only existing boad of al
Iegiaace, the only power through which
laws can be justly enforced-then has the
time arrived when society is dissolved into
lie original elemsnts, placing each man in
position freely TO choose Tor himself those
institutions which are most consonant 20
his feelings, or which viii best secnre 10
h m his life, labor and possessions.
II the mother country viii rot render Just