Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1860-01-14

WHAT HAS PARTY DONE I've claim

pOrlahl queSlion--UH0t mas p6F'y d0Rf
for maakind2 For The last forty or fifty
years, The people of the United State.
have been divided into political parties =
sometimes one party has been in power
sometimes The olhcr-but which Of them
ever consulted the welfare of the Farmers
and the Mechanics Which Of Them ev.
er legislated for tie interest Of The produ.
cling classes ! Is there TO be found sin
gle instance upon record What has eli.
ther done TO build up system OF Com.
mon Scholastic difruse abroad the bles-
sings Of universal education Which OF
them lave ever thought If The poor
mans burdens and the poor mans rights
Which OF them ever legisl lted for the
greatest good of the largest number Nei-
Their Both have uniformly built up arts
tocratical distinction IN socieiy-bolh have
robbed labor by chartering paper money
banks-both have made laws for the ex-
elusive benefit of few rich men, and
both have trodien the rights Of man undo
foot. We DO not say that they have done
it equally, bu, both have done the very
same thing; the difference has only been
in degree, not in kind.
Now What what II tie remedy for all this
shameless hypocrisy-'his unbIushug
abandonment Of principle by the trading
politicians There is but one method
by which The evil can be cureh-and that
is by an nseperable union between the
farmers and mechanics. Their interest is
one and the same; and yet they allow
themselves to be splil up into opposing
parties al the polls. So long as drones
and idle rich men can keep the working
classes divided into two parties, so long
will they riot upon the spoiIs Of party con-
quest. Let the working men once unite
a, elect ons and the evils of which they so
justly complain would be swept from the
face Of The earth
BALLS ExPERIENcr.-Mr. Ball, the
master armorer, whilst prisoner in the
Engine House at Harper's Ferry, was
the most exciieP, intense and vivid in his
description. He said Brown would not
permit him to 81 year, though he felt dread
fully like it. He complained bitterly Of
his adipose coalitions. "For the first
time in my life, he remarked, Il wished
! was a thin man Old Brown placed me
in the corner. ,he brick wall forming an
angle only thirid len inches deep. am
seventeen in dia he,er. pray Led smartly
then iha, the extra four inches had never
belonged 10 mel | squeezed INTO The
wall every lin ball came banging
through the door Al first | wasn't much
frightened, but when Old Ossawattamie
tolI us he should place Col Washington
and the rest Of usI in front of them if the
military fired, really fell awful squeam-
ish, and when htard the door breaking
in thought wa$ goner. One OF the
marines was just CHING to poke me through
with his bay onet, \ hen Lieut.. Greene,
who was the frstIin, threw Up his arm
and said was friend. could hear the
teeth oil yonng Blown CRATE together
when the BAY onei went through his body.
When got fairly Outside gave three
cheers for the UnierA States. embraced
my friends eagrrlyAin fact every body.
In the delight Of the al men | could have
embraced anything b1l negroes, upon
my honor, sir never was SO happy in
my life"
e. George n Hoyf. of Boston. one
Of the counsel Of A!d' Brown at CHARLES
town. Va, made al most violent speech al
New Btdlurd, Mast. few evenings sg".
He denounced the \Virginians in round
terms declared that Brown did not receive
fair Tial-,ha, he as put on trial con
trary in the customs u all civilized PEG
pie, and that Caleb Cushing in declaring
that Brown had justice done him told q
..delib, rate. malicluusi and premediiaie,
falsehood." The latlet assertion was re-
ceived with alternate cheers and Kisses.