The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-03-27
Letter from an English Cotton spinner In
the Working-men OF the United st,t..

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the WOrking-men Of the United s,,,..
BROTHER JONATHAN
Iperceive by my weekly newspaper, (for which I
pay on every number heavy taxi that there are
some things now going forward in your country
that are very interesting to both you and Ile. am
one Of those who have to work to pay for great
debt Of about $780, ,00O of English pounds and
your papers report that you may shortly be put to
work to pay for debt of about 200 900 of dollars
don't know whether you up to it all, but take
1t you are, for they commonly think here, that you
are very knowing chap. But if you are willing TO
work TO pay such debt, then methinks you are not
SO quick sighted as we suppose you
see that your papers saw great deal LAS well "a
| ours) ABOUT American roguery. But our papers
don't say much OF the roguery on this side OF the
wafer, and yours are nearly silent uron that SUBJ
ject. should like to know if YOU Yankees are ali
aware OF the exact cause of all your new debt that
| Is to be- You report that the Hon VIM Cost John
son has proposed 10 you to make a great national
fund OF the matter, and to undertake to paw the
whole OIL, and some of them here are tall ng ol
sending over Lord Ashburton again, to get this
, thing settled, He would perhaps like to do that
very well, as it is said that he creditor for more
l than 100000
But if you Brother Jonathan, should come into
this happy scheme, it Is to be hoped you WON'T do
Bull have been swindled. One writer on this side,
who calls you dishonest" tells of the debt that
was established upon, you to pay of the paper of
your Revolutionary War but that writer does not
mention aword about the dishonest afficking among
your legislators, when they put that debt your
counry's shoulders.
But to come TO the point. How was this last debt
contracted, and how came our fine mercantile gentry
| to have so many OF the bonds and" securities''
OF your hne gentry of the same Glass; How far
your gentry may have made good use Of the money
sent youfrom England, know not but can say
ihls that great deal OF that money was obtained
here by as downright swndllng everwas. Now
some OF your English creditors are great rich
| men, who had lot of "loose cash" on hand, and
hearing of the " Yankee bonds" thought they
could get good interest out OF Brother Jonathan
by buying those bonds, instead Of more properly
employing their superfiuous wealth in the improve
| ment OF their own country. This is class of pa.
triots who deserve to Lose all they have in the world
But there is another class who deserve much pity;
| those who have been robbed by our swinders of
their money, and with whose money our swndlers
have purchased your bonds" and securities"
| Innocent people, with both large and small fortunes
In this country, have been prevailed 10 sink their
money in the schemes of our bankers, (for we
have bankers, as well as you, and rare set they
are } Those bankers, it now turns out, have been
playing what Is called :" ducks and brakes" with
by this means, and with great part of The capital
so obtained. they have speculated in your prime
securities" When the day of reckoning with
that they had fallen among thieves, and had been
robbed. Small people in trade, rs well large,
simple minded people of independent property,
WILLOWS, orphans, clerks, Nc--Of sncn klnd, there
have been crowds and crowds swinded And
who, now, are you, Brother Jonathan TO 60 into a
great new debt for Is IT TO repay these unfortunate
people Not so indeed, for their cash sunk
and gone, long ago! Your national debt will
be put on your back 10 pay your cash to the very
Glass; who have dabbled in the SECURITIES" and
bonds, " TO the rum of their English neehbors.
You might wonder how it is, that such things
cannot be duly punished by the law here II lie not,
indeed, for want ofaw, for Of that article we have
quite superfiulty, especially in The criminal de-
psrtment. The crops of wheat with Us some
time, good, and sometimes but middlIng, but the
act OF Parliament crop is always superaDundant.
We have some thing new every session, for the surer
catching OF small offenders in the swindling way.
But It is true however that the law here, never lays
its claws on the great swInder! No doubt there is
good deal of this kind Of equality with you also.
g w0Hd i!sm your being forced to use
your wings" talk Of the horrors of Lynch law,
as proof that republicansm is tyrannical thing,
while in our country things are at last come TO that
very conservative" state, that peace cannot be
kept without shooting the people down In the
streets, as you would your wild turkeys
Our punlshmens tor wretched fellow, who " OBJ
tains by false pre- ences," as it is called, the tum OF
Cd, or loaf of bread, are most " Imparhally" re.
we're. Put the same law never catches the man OF
great false pretences, who may have pretended"
FIVE hundred families into beggary IL Is, indeed,
nearly the same way OF making public example. as
the private example for the naughty young Lord,
mentioned BY Scipo in Gil Bias Scipio Che poor
boy) was sent to school along with the young Lord,
and whenever the young Lord deserved whip
ping Scipo whipped tor the example
But fear shall grow tedious. wanted only to
remind you OF this that the principal as II styled
OF the capital paid for your bonds" has been got
from John Bull by swlndling, and that the interest
which you to pay toru, is to be paid to set OF
swindlers and that our swindlers mean to have
not your paper, Brother Jonahan-no, they expect
to get something better han your rags and fimsies
They mean. if they can, TO have large sum OF
your hard cash, produce, the fruits OF your own
earnings What say you TO this We call our.
selves a " most thinking people," and understand
that you have bit of CONCERT In your own wisdom,
too But we have been " done" neatly, have we
as neat! II is well tor you and John Bull that you
are not near enough TO see one another's faces.
do not know which has most reason to be ashafne
of this cheat on both sides
nsn lam, Brother Jonathan,
Your sincere well wisher,
JEREMIAH SPINDLE.
Manchester, Old England, March, 1913.
p. ST. perceive that you are getting on pace
in initiating manufacturers OF the old world. But
some extracts have read from the speeches of the
| Hon z. Allen, and the Hon. Dan. Webster, made
| few years back, were all the other way. The
former gentleman said, God forbid that there
| should ever be Manchester IN the new world"
4 and Mr.. w. was nearly OF the same way Of think
| ing then. / suppose, however, that you will be
| going on, as others have done, and find It all out
| when it is rather too late If you were TO pay a
| General at the Hermitage" think II would be
| the better for you in the end.
se.w Jr.nctf hAILnOAD AM TRANS
FORMATION COMPANY.
NEW YORK AND NEWARK.
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