Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1856-10-16
For the Delaware RepubIlcan.

' 10 TIE "GREAsY MECHANICS. Fellow work.
ingmen ask YOU In oandor to pause and examine,
before you cast your votes in tho coming election,
the elaims whio the asf styled democracy OTTO day
have on your soffsrage The time ws5 whom deS
mocraoy meant the protection Of your rights Its
boast was that its governmental blessings "likc The
dows Of heaven descended alike on the rich and the
poor" Whom Il sought 10 elevate and ennoble the
working IN an, when tho humble m sohsnic, BY his
unaided genius could command the respect and nd .
miration Uf his oountrymen-when the free schools
Of the northern States were accounted u blessing
How Is II to day. Let me tell you; Slavery is res
garded as a hsssing-freo labour u CURSE Your
free schools the boast Of your country now
regarded as aninsuferabe nuisance, because they
iuoate the mhsses and tend TO elevate labor Look
at your Halls oG Cohsrss. charles Sumner the poor
mechanic whose talents command the aimiration oil
Europe despoc as tits, il stricken down in the Senate
Chamber OF This fee RSPu3lc AZ Alnsrca simply
because his views Of the dignity Of Tree labor could
not be answered save by the blud1eon Henri
Wilson the poor shoemaker boy now tho enlightened
statesman is secuted with contempt by the enemies
of free labor. Mr. Banks whose towering intellect
raised him to the speakers chair despite the oppo
sition OF the slayeocracy rose from q poor boy
working In WOODEN Factory TO his present high
position. Looking at such examples as these, is It
any wonder the arisocracy Of the country should
depreciate free labor, and free schools surely not
The only wonderis that they should so far presum
upon your ignorance as to ask ysu by your votes
to degrade yourselves 10 q level with their slaves
To accomplish this, they style themselves the De
word has for the poor man. But unfortunately for
them, they forget that there are smal listed far.
mers, greasy mechanics, and filthy operators" who
as we'll as they know what true democracy is and
are not to be thus entrapped. 30
challenge the seIfstyIed democracy Of to day.
("flthy operative" as they may call mol to point
out single principle Of Jefersonian democracy,
which they have not fOrsaken at the bidding Of the
enemies OF free labor FREQ Democracy advocated,
national bank, taiF for the protection of labor.
the distribution Of tho proceeds Of the public lands
to foster aud support free schools, the improve.
nent fyers and barbors facilitate the transit Of
products of free labor, the freedom Of the terri.
tories, to the free white man, tho freedom Of
speech and last though not least the freedom of the
press. charge upon the self styled democracy OF
to day the reputation Of all those glorious prnci>
pies They have been sacrificed upon the altar Of
Slavery. Democray to day means the propogandism
Of Negro Slavery, to the exclusion Of free white
labor-rum and drunkenness to the cxsiu ion OF
prohibition and sobriey, Greasy mechanics. smSll
listed farmers and filthy operatives which will you
vote for? Free schools, free speech free labor and
free soil, or Buchanan Slavery Rum, ~