Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-01-10
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To The Editor of the Boston Courie

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To the Editor of the Boston Courier:-
The following article, emaDsting from
the pen of a genuine workingman, un
doubtedly speaks the sentiments of thou
sands of the labcring classes who were
seduced into voting for Lincoln and Ham
lin, though, as yet. they may not publicly
avow their sense of the outrageous manner
in which they have been betrayed:
As APPEAL TO THE HON.. HENRY WILSON,
UNITED STATES SENATOR,
wAsHIEToN, D. c.
We, the undersigned workingmen Of
Boston, having faithfully complied with
your request to vote for Mr.. Lincoln and
the Republican ticket, feel that we have
right to address you at the present cri-
sis of affairs.
Sir, you proved to us in many speeches,
and just before the recent national elect
ion, particularly in East Boston, that it
was the interest of the workingmen, in
order to improve their condition. to vote
with the Republican party. You have
proved to us that the South dare not OPP
pose the government Of Republican
President, and if she should dare you
would summon the Wide -Awakes and
whip them into submission.
Now, Sir, we hive done as you reques
ted us to do, and voted for "frledom and
good times" We have, during the last
campaign, lost many days labor; we
have Joined the Lincoln Guards, the Wide
Awakes and the Rail SplitterS' Battalion,
and drilled every night for the contest.
We have also marched in procession thro'
every street in Boston, an to almost every
town in the counties Of Suffolk, Norfolk
and Middesex. We have freely contrib
uted to the fund to buy up Intelligent
voters and patriotic electors" We have
supplied ourselves with military uniforms
and equipments, such as black oil cloth
capes and caps, and wooden axes to split
rails to fence in our Republican camps.
We incurred all the expenses at the very
time when our wives had to go without
the necessary winter ga: ments.
We supplied ourselves with splendid
lanterns of new and improved styles. when
in our dwellings our wives and children
had to sit by miserable smoking oil lamps.
In our nightly marches and countermar-
ches, we have drank the finest liquors
(some of Of our boys have become confirm
ed topers in consequence, for you know
we had to swell our professions with mi
nors) and eat the best turky suppers,
when at home our poor wives and chill
dren had not loaf of bread or pound OF
meat for the next day. We have hired
the best bands to play for us, when a.
home we could not afford to summon a
physician for dying wife or child. We
did all these things cheerfully' because
you promised us that the golden days Of
the workingman were coming.
We won a great victory. We achiev-
ed a great triumph. You were so excited
about the triumph that you told us in the
| Music Hall that You { or we had the slave
= power under our heels, and that the first
' great job for us to begin was grinding
g that slave power to powder"
t 1t seems, however, sir, that your pro-
} phecies do not prove to be correct. We
, see no chance to "grind," for we see that
} part of the power is taking steps to go
, outside of your, or our, reach SO that we
t cannot get them into the hopper of your
grinding mill. Beside losing that prom
, ised job, we have been losing our legiti-
/ mate employments from the time our
man has been elected, only a few weeks
} ago More than five thousand men have
S been thrown ont Of work. Last Saturday
D alone two thousand of us were discharged,
: and the prospect is, that before 'our man
is duly installed, hundreds of thousands
? will be out of employment.
. Great and wise Senator, you must help
: us in this strait You took the respcn-
4 sibility of all this, when the Dem ocrats
| and Union men told us that the Union
h. would be broken up, that civil war wo'd
= follow revolution and that the whole coun'
7 try would be submerged by on unfathom,
E able sheet of lava, destroying everything
G in its wild and ungovernable sweep. You
told us not to believe these men. 1ou
S told us they were nothing but timid era
t vans, fossils, doughfaces, old fogies, slave
= hunters, slave drivers, DC.
t Sir, there are many of us who in for
a mer days belonged to the Democratic and
S Wing parties. We deserted these parties
0 because you proved to us that they were
e unfit to goven this country. Now is the
time to show that you understand the
r government better than they.
You have chosen your Speaker; you
y have votes enough in the House of Rep
t resentatives to establish peace and harno'
+. ny. Give us our promised reward! Give
3 us good times! You know our wants
9 You laid your ear several times on thu
3 heart of the people Of Massachusetts, il
S order to find out it's pulsations. You pro-
8 bounced its pulsations sound (on the
s goose') and pure. Do not delay your
$ action. Give us the promised good times
i We have done our duty-now is the time
D for you to do yours.
y With that amount OF confidence which
: you deserve, we subscribe our names, ss
Q awaiting for deed and word, your fellow
: workingmen.
: WIN. CUTTER, and Others.