Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-11-12
From the New York Express, 5th.
Third Hunger Meeting--Great Assembly at
TompI<ins Square and the Park.

Third Hunger MeetIn g.-Great Assembly at
Tompkins Square and the Park.
Another meeting of the unemployed was held
on Thursday, (this morning,) on Tompkins Square,
in pursuance of call from the committee ap-
pointed for that purpose, in various newspapers.
While to the previous call only some one or two
thousand individuals responded, there was to-day,
on the Square, crowd of some four or five thous-
and growing and clamoring for "work, "iiour"
or "hread."
The sight was awful. Several fierce Dutch and
Irish orators addressed the assembage, to the
effect that they must procure or devise some
means for the relief Of their starving families, urg
ng the crowd to assemble every day, and to march
every day to the City Hall, and there petition the
"Govcrnment'' for employment for relief, and
finally if necessary to compel them to give it as
sertng that they have perfect right to do,so, as
every workman, who is willing to. work, has n
right to living.
They saySthcy will now demonstrate every day,
and thus increase their strength and render their
movement popular, and that the number partici-
pating in this movement having already doubled
since the beginning, they hope that the movement,
before long, will not be less than &c. 200, and liy-
ing in land ofplenty, they will have the power
to better their terrible situations
1t was then resolved. to march to the City Hall
and to present there to the Mayor and Common
Council their resolutions, which were read, to the
following effect: - q1..
Whereas. The terrible distress actually exis-
ting among the laborng classes gave cause to sew
eral meetings, and peaccable yet monrnful pro-
cessions Throughout the city, for the purpose OF
obtaining swork' from private resort, but having
entirely failed in this, and arrived at the gloomy
conviction that during the present crisis it will
be impossible to get employment by individual
cxertion, they Submit to His Honor that he may
cause the employment Of theSunemployed by EN-
ploying them at public works, such as the Cen
trnl Park and the new Reservoir in lcrelng
streets and other work which has long been con.
templsted.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted
A line of march was then formed, which, head
ed by three drummers and q transparency with
the inscription of work carried in front, proceed
ed through ST. Marks Place, Third Avenue, Bowery
and Chatham street, to the City Hall. They
marched on the sidewalks, and these were en-
trely blocked up along several streets as they
passed.
The picture represented was very alarming
and it was viewed by the spectators, when they
passed, with surprise and astonishment.
: Arrived in front of the City Hall, two members
of the committee read from the steps the peti
ton and resolutions in English and German: =
"To convene without delay the Aldermen and
commonality of the city, for the purpose of or
daining the immediate employment OF workner
OF the Central Park, Grand Reservoir, New Pos'
Office, levelling or sewerng streets, or any other
public works so indispensable for the sanitary
condition of the; people, and the comfort and sale
ty of the wealthy themselves"
Every human being has right to live-not. as
mere charity, but as q right; and Governments
monarchial or republican, must find work for the
people, if individual exertion prove not sufficient
After repeated readings and short explanations
on the Importance of this document, the committee
went into the corridor of the hall leading to the
Mayors Office. introduced by some attendants,
Mr.. Bceler, acting as Chairman, in the absence o
Mr.. Smith, (who had retired in consequence Of
seeing his own-more violent-resolutions not a
dopted at Tompkins Square, presented the above
petition. The Mayor atteutively read it, and an
ywered substantially as follows:
He, the Mayor expressed his deepest sympa'
thy with the contents of the petition, as perfectly
agreeable to the proposals in his message, to the
Common Council that he would do all in-his pow
er for the ali,viation of the terrible misery now
resting upon the people; and that he would bring
the memorial next week to the deliberation of the
Common Council that he hoped the committee
would endeavor to keep the masses quiet, and te
make them wait until the decision Of the authori'
ties is given. Several papers had pretended thai