Blue hen's chicken. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1848-1854, 1849-08-10

sd'e nlln5elI, WINE IN tue meantime lie may
9 cause to cluster around the hearthsione of his
o home, enough OF life's enjoy .nent to reward
= his mother, his wife, his sisters and his daugh-
: tiers, for their unfailing fidelity to him in his
: hours of severest trial and darkest desponden-
cy.
Ladies ! have you then no interest in our
Associations nay are you not more interested
than the men! Ii, by the great influx of for
eign laborers working cheap and living mser-
= ably, your male relatives and connections are
D driven forth from the home of their ancestors
and your ancestors, to seek an asylum in the
: untrod Wilderness, whose gloomy silence is
unbroken, save by the whOop of the mercess
Indian, seeking the living bodies, and the dole
!, iul howl of the famshed wolf, in quest Of the
/ dead bodies, of the poor victims-if, | say,
they are thus driven forth by the unprincipled
horde of foreign underworkers, will you not go
: with them Will you not share their lot ?
And will it be ligh, thing for you to sever all
the ties of early childhood-to leave the loved
spirits of childhood's hour-all, all those scenes
which, by being long viewed, seem to have
bscome part of your existence. All, would
it be light thing for you, with your dear lit
tie ones, to be thus driven out into the I'M
knowl places of our land The rupture of such
ties as have described, would surely be dread
full. My fein. description will certainly be
realized, unless something is done, and speed
lily done, to arrest all the evils incidental to the
great influx of cheap laborers. Where, ladies',
shall you look for protection if not from your
male relatives Such protection as they can
give you, results only from voluntary Associa-
lions like those, in behalf of which, am plea
ding before yon to day. OF this feel assured
from your we'll known intelligence, you are
convinced. Ought mot then the noble Amer
lean Mechanics, ladies, to receive more than
enchanting, encourag ng smiles from you.
Methinks your hearts all, all respond allrma-
lively. Well, what shall you do to forward
our great enterprise will tell you, ladies'
act, act decidedly, not only for us, bu; tciM US.
Form kindred Associations, such as we have
in other jurisdictions. By SO doing you will
convince the community that you really approve
of our undertaking TO advance our own, and
consequently, ladies, your happiness. The
world of demagogues may laugh at our efforts.
Designing politicians may affect to hold our
combinations in contempt. With your advice,
counsel and cooperation, we cannot be moved,
and are sure of success. How will your sis
tiers of Pennsylvania and other states be rejoice
ed to hear that you are still forming United
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work of furthering a truly patriotic and Amer
lean cause.
And now Mr.. President, and Ladies and Cen
ilemen, allow me to indulge in few reflections
on our country and the day we are celebrating.
Who can sufficiently appreciate the blessings
of our free institutions Accustomed as we
are to them, we begin, fear, to regard them
with careless eye. 1t has been well said,
" the price of liberty is eternal vigilance."--
We cannot be too careful to guard against all
inroads on the time honored tenets of Repub-
lcanism. We cannot TOO carefully teach our
children that liberty can be secured only by
those who are intelligent-who are taught to
believe from the first maturity Of intellect that
all men are indeed created equal Lett be your
business then, mothers and fathers, TO see that
the youth are properly instructed in all that per-
tains 10 the freeman's lot.
Let all remember that the proud stars and
stripes of our native land can never he borne
aloft triumphantly by slaves-the slaves of lg-
norance, of superstition, of demagogueism. In
tellgence must pervade the masses. or our mod
eli Republic will becopea by-word. How then
shall the masses become educated Not by
laboring day and night to increase the already
swollen capital and revenue of the employer
no, but by giving good wages for working time. I
and allowing many of the hours of day for the
improvement of the mind.
sincerely trus, that many more anniversa-
ries of our National Independence will not be s
before manual labor will be held to be
as respectable as mental toll. This should be.
Until this state of affairs is brought about, ii
will be in vain to congratulate the working
classes. This they can bring about il they wish,
for they have the power, if they will only ex-
srcise it, would be the last man in the coun- !
try TO endeavor to array the rich against the poor.
In our country the rich man Of to-day may be
he poor man Of tomorrow, and the poor man d
The rich man. All wish to urge is he neces-
sity Of the people insisting on il, that they shall
rave enough time allowed them to prepare them y
selves or their great destiny as free born Amer
can citizens.
am conscious am addressing Delaware
audience ian audience composed of intelligent u
aides and patriotic men---the descendants Of :, =
hose who accomplished SO much in the dark
,st hour of our revolutionary struggle, and ef-
scted so much in shedding halo of glory a. q
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