The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-16


The Republicans in Trouble at General soott's
Nomination,
10 &c. Co.
MASSACHUSETTS,.
OUR SPECIAL LOWELL CORRESPONDENCE
LOWELL, Mass, Jan. Is. 1850
Ndnutactsres Of LosoeIl-Ho Marked the Worad-hr Sud
den 0rosrth-Rer Mills Managed By a Rso--Semsiment
Of ne People in Fdror Of Uniom-Garisonian Sen6
ments-Union Aectin9-Gou Bonks Veto Sustained-TAs
LaWremce Trdgedy-Incompdency Of Those IN Chayye-
Reeklessness Of Life, &C., dc.
vhe Manufactures OF Lowell well known in almost
every part Of the world for the world her market Al
most every railroad train that flies the country and
almost every ship that leaves It's port carries the fabrics OF
her looms and the products Of her thousands Of indusr
operatives portion Of its freight Thirty six years
since Lowell was unknown. few struggling farmers
occupied her soil. To-day she is city Of 1000 inhab
tants with twelve manufacturing establishments, running
Ay mills giving employ ment TO 900 operatives 70 say
nothing Of half many employed by firms and pri
vase individuals Capital art and industry have wrought
this wonderful change large majority Of the people Of
Dwell reading and thinking class, coming TO
otusions without sufficient
Lowell s IN respect unfortunate. Her destincs
ruled by clique Of incompetent men, who have by the
proxy VOTE fastened themselves upon the management of
corporations, to live on but not by them They sit
like incubus on our industry They came into power
under the shadow Of the largo who laid out
mills and for years carried them forward with
The latter have nearly all passed away their estates been
divided and their shares sold out to the people, Among
these widely scattered and divided interests designing
men Of and influence have succeeded in fastening
themselves and relatives in places Of power which
&c made to be snecures These Offices, filed with the
snobbery Of Boston, consue the present cottonocracy
Of Massachusetts,. They without much capital in
the corporations, some Of the chief managers In them
oten owning but single share. Their predecessors
held the political power Of the Sate but that has passed
away with Aem and the present cottonocracy have little
influence political action. Individually the officers
Of our manufacturing corporations many of them in
teresed in the commission houses Of Boston that sell
goods and such would not hesitate eat dirt for trade
they do TO keep their places but aside from these
ozens express their sentiments and act them openly
without regard TO consequences.
The republican sentiment predominates largely here;
hut yet our people whole conservative Union low
ing and order maintaining disposed TO adhere to their
constitutional obligations The true Of the
Of other manufacturing cities and towns in this vicinity
They ready to aid in preserving the purity and nte
ry of the Union; TO maintain the constitution received
It's amers and abide by the laws Of their country
Brown and his associates, and believe their fate was
erted although there those who think that ustioe
might have been tempered with mercy" The people are
disposed by themselves their influences infringe
IN the remotest manner upon the rights Of any portion
common country. While large majority proba-
bly, opposed TO the further extension Of slavery parcu
larly to that part Of the country from which pro-
hibited by the Missouri compromise, they willing
eoncede to the stakeholder all the rights and privileges
which the const tuition secured TO him. We're foreign
enemies 10 invade the South, the men OF New Eogland
would rush to the assistance Of their Southern
brethren did their ancestors in Revolutionary days
Nmust be admitted, however, ths there a clasa Of per-
among US, claiming belong the republican party
but little removed from Garrsonianism which belongs 10
no political party, who are loud toned and denuncatoy
In their language towards the South They few in
numbers, at least in this vicinity but what they lack in
numbers they make up in noise They falsely to
often regarded in other sections the country being
that OF the whole people, Their numbers as stated above
SMALL and their influence still less at home, they being
looked upon species Of monomaniacs unatto be trust
cd with the affairs Of Sate and they and their sentiments
endorsed by the peOple.
rates and ready TO uphold every assassn had they
the power, who would murder and commit other crimes
70 carry their Such should be
garded representing the OF the North any more
than the expressions OF the "fre eaers OF the South
ought 70 m be % considered re IA, as III the sent
Union meeting held in this city Dec. 2o which
largely attended by members OF all parties. o. NJ.
resolutions offered by Or. c. Aver were unanimously
adopted The resolutions the effect that the citi-
OF Lowell repudiate the acts and designs of John
Brown aud confederates dsapprove all attempts
fere with the rights and internal policy Of sister
States dscountenance sectional auatcsm, whether North
or South and declare that the perpuiy OF the federal
Union was paramount 70 all political considerations.
Speech:s were made by Dr. J. Aver, A. X. Brown aud
General 3 F. Butler, late democratic candidate for Go
and delegate elect TO the Charleston Convention
The meeting very enthusiastic the Union sentiments
Of the speakers being frequently cheered
avi.jo nt Cf
not bound up in the Niger may with truth be said that
the veto by Governor Banks Of the clause n the
10 become members Of military companies was received
with enthusiasm by nearly all classes and has added very
much 10 the popularity OF his Excelency
Helper's Compendium mach sought after by men Of
Ill classes the recent exciting debates Congress- having
created curiosity to read ts contents rather than with
view 10 endorse them ~ a whole. One travelling agent
recently stated In this city that he demand for TOO
copies Of the book which he could procure in Boston
The late terrible calamity Al Lawrence created an
tense painful excitement Ia this city United 10 us BY
similarity Of pursuits and rclationshipn fact botng
adjunct Of Lowel-ony nine miles dissant-ha up aud
settled by people from this city, her xrefs felt ss
owp Hundreds Of our citizens went down there on ne
terfbs night 70 assist In the benevolent task removing
e sae runs from It's III fated victims.
lawrence like ourselves is ruled by the pretentious
nccmpeency Of family scicns, and this disaster felt 70
be direct consequence Of this system under which we
have fallen. The officers of this corporation were selected
with regard only 70 their family connections, and without
any supposed known fitness for their duties II
publicly known when the Pemberton Mil building
that done without experience competency OF the
men IN chArge-that the structure insufficient and
dangerous and has been considered unsafe
Such b tho testimony OF the lai tho
walls, and such Ia tho concurrent testimony of many
citizens who watched their progress. Here is
melancholy instance where Massachusetts, with all her
ph'Anthropy, permitted men in cnarxs Of her minuao
ripg interests 70 be reckless OF The lives Of her
cxrns than any planter would be Of Las slaves Papers
IN she interest," Of the managers Of the corporation may
Are1 pt TO deny the fact but there pa.
70 the world with all It's Borrld consequences Full OF
hands, this mill had muscles and sine ws whisn ia n
Southern MARKET with black skin. would bring = m
ton e dollars Where 10 the South could be found aa az
soc'son OF Shareholders that would rnst this amount G
property 10 nothing OF the sympathy the have for
their scrvanis) IN trap totterins 10 its fall whih
sooner later crush 10 one horrible ruin Its
hundreds OF victims and thousands OF hearisf