The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-11
From the Ailuaukie Wis. News.
The New England Monied Oligarc hy.

Their lives in New England class of
born aristocrats, more rich. more grasping
and more formidable than the slavehold.
ers of the South, and more dangerous to
the perpetuity of our republican form of
government. In the census book the
class which we allude to is set down as
"manufacturers.' They are more numer-
GUS than all the shareholders of the Uni
ted States, more arrogant and more pow
erful. They live and thrive upon the la
Dor of white men whose manhood they
despise. They respect the laborer less
than the machines driven in their mills.
They measure the working uan as the
purchaser in the slave mart measures the
negro-by the size Of his muscle and
health of his blood. They build great
churches dedicated to God, in which the
cushioned seats are for the rich. They
build for themselves splendid mansions
to the working men they rent dwellings
little better than huts, or send them in
masses to cheap boarding houses.
Not contented with an exclusive political,
fanatical and social dominion within their
own States, they seek to convert the Fed
eral Government to their use, and make
the whole country tributary to their pros.
perity. Their sons swarm in the offices
at Washington and in the army, and their
representatives infest every foreign capital
and court. If the Government has fat
and heavy contracts to dispose of, they
claim them, as if they owned the patronage
Of the Government by prescription. They
force tariff bills through Congress, that
they may be protected and enriched
The agricultural and producing sections
of the country they look upon as but de-
tendencies upon their greatness and pow.
En- They force the West to pay tribute
to them, as the provinces Of Rome were
forced to enrich the mistress of the Old
World with barbaric spoil. They set up
monster banks with monster circulations
unsecured, and force the West to accept
their promises to pay premium, and re-
fuse to receive our secured papers but at
discount. They force US to pay them
large profits, and receive our productions
at the first cost of the hard labor which
produces them and the freight which
transports them. The old and poor who
have spent their lives unrequited in their
service they cast into their pauper houses
and rob them of their civil rights, or farm
them out verify as slaves. The white op-
pressed of other lands they welcome to
their shops and mills, confering upon
them the boon of hard labor and cheap
wages, but allowing them no rights of stuff
rage for many years after they reach our
shores. if @ e.s.
To-day they are urging through Con-
gress gievously unequal tax upon the
West to pay expenses Of war instigated
by themselves, and from which they are
reaping gigantic sums-growing wealthy
and strong upon the Affections Of the ma
ton, while they endeavor to escape the
main portion of the burden. They desire
disunion, that they may more thoroughly
control the government. They desire per-
petual war, that they may reap its spoils.
They desire change in the system of gov
ernment, that aristocracy may rule. They
desire a permanent national debt, that the
rich may own the nation, dictate its prin-
ciples, mould its, policy, and control its
agents. a3 a
If the West respects itself, it will soon
begin to realize its rights and dangers,
and by defending the one avoid the other.
It is question Of political and financial
slayery-an issue between the rights and
powers of free white labor, and the grasp
ing ambition and selfish domination of. an
arrogant monied aristocracys The West
The garden of the world--must be poor,
must be taxed, must be ridden down, until
it has both learned its power and dare as
sert it. - sa ga Hf 81