The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-11-13
THE HUNGRY MEETINGS in New York and

The HUNGRY MEETINGS in New York and
Philadelphia exhibit an alarming state of
feeling in large masses of laborers. The OBJ |
jects and temper of these meetings are dis
played in the speeches of the leaders by
which the crowds are swayed. At New York
one of the speakers said, with too much APP
parent truth, "that the members of Con-
gress, Of Assembly, or city or State officers,
or, in fact, any person who stole the public
or other property on an extensive scale would
not be prosecuted for the crime, on the other
hand, let the poor man or humble working
citizen take the articles which are essentially
necessary for the maintenance of himself
and family from starvation, be the value ev-
er SO small, without first paying therefor by
the honest sweat of his brow and he would
be arrested, tried and imprisoned, or other
wise severely punished. While The heads Of
government acknowledge by their every act
that thieving is the order of the day, should
they, the working men, collectively or indi-
vidually, take loaf of bread they would be
punished as common felons. 1t had hereto
fore been the rich against the poor, but the
time has come when it shall be the poor
| against the rich. No other resource was now
left them but to 60 to the rich and tell them
that they, the working men, must and should
have all they wanted. (Cheers.) When
once the people put their shoulders to the
wheel the ball was easily started in motion
and they must not let it stop till the griev-
ances of the people were alleviated. Cheers.
Another said:
ave will go to the quarters where oul
! destiny lies to day. We shall abide by the
laws of our country. We want work, and
this is ali we REQUIRE. We want the capital.
lists of Wall street, who have their money
buried in their vaults, to come forward anc
cash the notes OF men who give us employ
ment if they could obtain the money to DE-
so with. The working men have made cap
italists and aristocrats OF this country ricl
: by the sweat Of their brows, and now it wa
T no more than just that the working maj
should in turn receive their rights ut thei
hands. Unity is our strength law and or
der we will ABIDE by /; the sword We fear not
but we must have our rights"
One speaker, fearing that the crowd nigh
be excited to violence, said:
. elf you but observe and not violate tn
law, we may yet receive aid but If you re
! sort to violence you may hold the city il
your possession for few hours, but in tn
> ED you will be shot down AMI scattered u
chat by the officers of the law, aided by eli:
izens, storekeepsrs and capitalists"
: The crowd formed in procession an
marched to Wall street, where one Of tn
leaders, mounting the steps of banking
house, addressed the copcourse that had bee
drawn together to witness the issue of tn
movement, in the following strain:
; "We have not come here to disturb tn
public peace, but we are here to show tina
we are oppressed, and that work is all W
Q ask for, without which We must starve. w
might gather a multitude of unemploye
men who have aided in building up the ric
: who live in splendor, while the poor are al
lowed to suffer for want Of the necessaries G
life. (Cheers.) We see in our daily pres
that we have asked work of our Commo
Council, who are our servants, and i'm dut
: bound to protect us, or be cast from otic
e and be made as poor as we are ourselves
(Cheers.) We are not going to beg daily
we shall give them no rest till they reliev
v us. We don't speak of bloodshed. Our prin
cipal motto is, :" Law, love and liberty."-
The sword We fear not, but hunger we dread
10 | DeltcT tHcU, VIC suoulu W VIC SWOIu lila
disgrace the republic by dying of want an
> hunger. We are satisfied to fight for on
flag, but the bears of Wall street must com
a forward and relieve our wants. The spcake
said he had always considered himself ma
i of honor, and must he come down to the lev
n ell OF the street beggar in this republica
country! There, said her pointing to I'll
6 different banking offices, lay twenty million
!. of gold, and we must starve but let tn
money go into circulation, and our employ
ers will at once set us to work. Politician
look to themselves. They never seek IN o.
fee without having certainty of becomin
rich in it, and then turn round and tramp
d the poor working men under foot, and lea'
l. us to starve for want of work. There is OF
10 motto, We want work - but the rich PR
~ ferring rather to sit down to their good dir
III ners, leave us without even loaf Of brcl
~ for ourselves or our children. i say to Il
ID baronet there are honest, hard working me
p here to-day, who have labored and bui
your cities and your palatial residences al
re banking houses, who are now supplicatir
In you for work to keep themselves and famili
ey from starving. Will you give it Them"
!. Voices-Work or bread.