The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-04-15
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y 81 am sorry to sec that q very unpleasar
demonstration was made at Manchester, las
+ Tuesday, concerning which it is we'll that yo
y should have full. parti culars. It appears tina
|, a meeting of the operatives in Manchoste
: had been called for that day, and it was an
nounced that Rev. G. w. Dennison, Chaplain
of the George Griswold, would be present
9 This was all very well, and tho Mancheste
operatives would gladly have listened to an ad
dress from that gentleman. But the mana
: gers of the meeting, very illadvisely, alst
announced that on the OCCASION fifteen thou
{ sand loaves of bread would be distributed
e 3 composed of the flower. brought by the George
| Griswold, and representing the number of
barrels of the staff of life that composed hcl
carg1 This is q purely English way of doing
things. In the very disbursement of charity
there must be a "fuss" about it.. They over.
, locked the fact that while the Manchester op.
~eratives would thankfully participate in the
American contribution, when presented TO them
in the proper manner, they were still men and
women enough to resent the idea of being pa
raded like so many paupers, and sent home
each with a loaf of bread under his arm. The
managers may have meant we'll enough, but
were sadly mis- AIKEN in their policy. Posi-
bly,, however, il let alone, the operatives would
have submitted to this public system of char
ity, but it was too good an opportunity for the
Liverpool secessionists to lofe. Taking adj
vantage of the circumstances, their emissaiies
were sent down among The Manchester mas
ses, and the result was that when the hour for
the meeting arrived, instead of an anxious and
grateful assemblage of men and women, there
was only, an excited and almost Infatuated
mob.
"I may spare you the details, but the end
was that fifteen thousand loaves of bread, each
weighing two ounds-thus representing some
| ono bundraA on1 Hlfu b,rralc of Aorr- raro
taken from the pans and thrown into the mud,
where it was trampled Under foot. The mob
pelted each other with the convenient missiles,
and a scene of excitement. and confusion en-
sued, better imagined than described. OF
course, the meeting, as such, was baoken up,
and the day terminated in thisd isgraceful row
These appear to be the facts, for which [ have
no comment"
We have often called attention to the fact
that certain men and politicians act upon the
principle that because men are poor they can
haye no sense and are only fit to be used as
machines in a factory. In this era of news
papers and reading it is not, as formerly, SO
easy a matter to keep intelligence from the
people ifthey are poor, and it never was half
as easy as some people supposed, even when
only one in a hundred could read or write.
This out-burst of indie nation in England is,
of course, laid to the influence of "the seces-
s%ionists," but there is, no doubt, about as much
truth in this as tho charge of secessionism in
stigating the Indian war in Minnesota. We
Lave known men and women throw all the
misforrunes they brought upon themselves by
their bad conduct on told Mother Eve" for
eatii e the forbidden fruit, but we never heard
of any one escaping punishment on this plea.
Now We cannot see why it was not as well
understood in England as in America that
these food gifts sent by abolition merchants,
bankers and war spectators of New York and
Boston were the veriest charity sham that
ever was gotten UP. Everybody knew, who
read 4 newspaper, especially one which told
the truth, that we had demands enough at
for all the charity VIC possessed to ex-
haust itself upon without parading before the
world in the most austentatious manner that !
we are a going to feed all the paupers of Eng
land -.- ~
These working men and women of Eng {
land, however, were not pdupers, they were t
honest, industrious working people, thrown
of employ through the want of Gotten from /
he Southern States to keep the mills running. I
they knew all about what was the matter us
as these o~ficious Intermediates, who sent S
he parade of vessels across the Atlantic with
. flourish of trunpets and jaekassical trum-
peters to announce the coming. OF course r
his class of laborcrs did not desi e to be pos !,
cd before the world as paupers and have their u
caves of bread doled out to them like ears of b
.orn to pigs. The insult was gross, palpabIe /;
nd for effect, as a great international evil
Ience Of harmony between two nations who had 9
en- CAUSES of war where there were one of s.
,eace. These working men and women, poor /.
S they might be, still had too much spirit to q
&c exhibited with each a loaf of bread in his n
land, as the scapc goats of international by I
'ocricy and osecntation. &19E KIT - u
There is a brood of abolitionists in England Il
s there is in America, who have labored for
hirty odd years to bring about the veryswar
7bich is the cause of so much suffering in tt
England and shedding of blood in America, h
in both countries the working classes have
D bear the brunt of starvation and &llood re- v
ulting from this. abolition combination. This cl
just as well understood by the laboring ST.
lasses in England as in this country, and
larify from such quarters should at least be
lodest, however dishonest! But modesty is
OF a part of It's character or design, especially n
here white laboring men have any stake in o
lie matter. 6e~a 3T~ 81 .a -
England is full of wealth, and it is very sim
ular if that wealth at home cannot take care ~
its own poor, made so by an unequal di- VI
ision of the profits of labor and still more
ngular and insulting to humanity is it for en-
Ue rich mcn to send charity to such a people \.
such a time, when hundreds of thousands of ~ y
miles at home, are suffering, every possible as
eprivation Of life, in consequences of their eli
r%otcctors and supporters being drawn into our ov
ar, and tens of thousands sick and wounded, q,
ling our hospitals, dying for the want of that -
which these American abe Iiticnists, Gu
rough English abolition hands, rendered to :
e poor of England. xusE1
Yet, because we expose these things and
Id them up TO public indignant we are so
by these abolition hounds an enc We
q of the solder, while they claims to be his
clusiUe friends.
We see it stated by telegraph that very re-
.ntly the amount due the soldiers in the ar
y on their monthly pay, withbeldfo months
d months by these c~rclasise friends, amount r.,