The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-11-28
PROSCRIPTlON-COON MEAN
NESS.

boo!
PROSCRIPTlON-COON MEAN
NESS.
If any man in his senses has doubted
in which party the spirit of old federal
ism took up its abode when it consented to
abandon name by itself, the frequency of
the evidence reaching us, Of The base and
mean vengeance which in many quarters
Coon manufacturers and employers are
INDUCING themselves in, against The poor
men dependent on them who have had the
manliness to be true to their principles,
and to their own views of the duly of pat
rotism, by voting for the Democratic can.
didates, would be perfectly satisfactory.
Only look at the deliberate and cold.
blooded manner in which This dastaldly
mode Of persecution of The honest poor, is
justified and recommended in the Wing
Columbia az Y. Republican.
Support those mho support you,-This
should be the motto of every Wing in the
land, and particularly Of the manufacturers
who ale making arrangements to cu'taI
their business. Those of their operatives
who voted TO destroy the Tariff, who
literally "qumrelied Nth their own bread
and butter" should be the first TO reap
the benefits they have assisted in bringing
down upon themselves. Those who were
true to their interests and were conse-
qlen,ly true 20 their employers, should be
cherished TO the last. In oil kinds Of
business this principle should be carried
out, for we have the highest of oil author
it for saying that she who is not FOR Us is
AGAINST U.s." we have yet to learn that
it is a virtue to abandon friends and nurse
vipers in our bosom,
The following good suggestion, on the
other hand, we take from the Democratic
paper published IN The same city, the Hud-
son Gazette;
Prescriptions We understand that
many Of The Wing manufacturers are dis
charging from their employ all who voted
the Democratic ticket We know OF but
one way TO meetthls system ofproscription
and protect the honest aborer in the ex-
ercIse OF his rights, and that is, by ReloM-
alton. Let the name of any manufacture
er who thus proscrbes his workmen, be
published 10 The porH, and every Demo-
crat cautioned against buying his goods on
any account. lfthis course be pursued
and strictly enforced, no manufacturer
would dare prescribe his men. Democrats
what say you to ihis7 Need we ask! Your
duty is plain and we trust no one will
shrink from it.
And we add, says the N. Y, News, the
following communication addressed to us
by gentleman who vouches for the truth
OF IFS statements:
Proscription-A friend upon whom
called last evening, related the following
facts:-
"a Wing jobbing merchant discharged
two cart-nien on account of their politics
A retailer, named Miller, one Of his best
cash customers, heard ofthe circumstances
and called upon the jobber to hear his ver-
sion Of the story, telling him, at the same
time, that il he was guilty of The charge,
he would never trade another cent with
him as long as he lived. The jobber de.
MED the charge; but, as Miller was not
fully satisfied, he sought out the discharged
cartmen themselves, and ascertaned that
the jo5ber's denial was an unmiligated lie.
Miller then returned. and, after lectur.
ing thoe mean oppressors as he deserved
he told him that he would expose him 20
all his Democratic customers. every one
Of whom would unite with him in giving the
pal,ry oppressor a draughl from his own
cup.
"Now, as cases Of this kind are said to
be constantly occurring, ought not our
general committee to appoint publishing
committee, whose duty it should be to
carefully ivesligate every case Of The kind,
and to publish the names of all business
men who may see fit to adopt he principle
OF prescription! Whenever the guilty
person should happen TO be wholesale
dealer orjobber,l would publish the names
OF the retailers ,oho should continue to deal
,oith him, in order that every Democrats
wife might know what stores to avoid
81 hear that many manufacturers ard
adopting this proscriptive system agains
their Democratic workmen. One OF TN
staunchest Democratic mechanics of ii
Eighth Ward suggests that it would be VIC
to form an association for furnishing can
bic and efficient workmen thus dismiss
with capital to start business in OPPOSITE
to their tyrants, at a moderate interest.
lie is willing to risk few hundred dolla
in this way, and is confident that thousand
Of others would also lend a hand, if th
Wings shall please to render j, necessary
Some things can be done as well as 9th
ers.' "LACoN."
To counteract this movement, 1t ha
been recommended in Boston that Stat
Society be formed for the protection
laborers, who are discharged for voting
the Democratic ticket. This is a goo
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