New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-04
TO WORKING MEN.

for President 70 lead the Government and execute the
laws Of The United States during the next four years
as well as 70 vote Tor candidates who will IN more
direct degree represent your particular ideas on mat
teys of public policy Of every nature.
You need not be told that Governments instituted
5or the protection Of the governed. That s least was
the original idea of Government Ii sprang from the
wants and wishes Of the people
History teaches us that OIL Governments have sprung
from an elective syste-ffom tie choice OF the people
In the Old World the strong few have wrested from the
hands Of the weak many the qop 10 rule; but The '9N
remains in The people and can never be taken away
From the middle ages to e present dey heIe mas peh
steady and perpetual struggle on the part OF TIE PEG
pie in Assemblies, in Congresses and ialisme nts ana
Legislative Chambers and ut times, by Revelation
and on the battlefield, recover something Of tho
power TO rule themselves which had been w sod rom
them At last under circumstances OF peculiar fortune
favored people established themselves On these SHORES
Of America and partly by tlGr own strength an"
partly owing the fact that they were separate" ~
broad sea from the concentrated elements Of power set
up for themselves GoyernmeDt and undertook 10 ru'e
themselves. So long the Homo Government dH
them no wrong, they were content 10 remain
within its nominal protection, but when the M0--er
Country declared its right to govern them vitI0lt
consulting them they pro:es,od against the grievance
Their repeated protests being dsIegrGed' thcy az
length resisted arms in hand; and finally on ine 4th
july l776 declared 10 al the world their belief IN the
elnality Of man. and asserted behalf OF al mankind
the right of the people TO govern Themselves ms
,iRh TINS asserted and declared they recovered after
long and painful war and In u 70 later generations
n a priceless and nestimsbe heritage.
A form Of government was then Instituted, with as
little departure as possible from the existing Colonial
1T q
eonfederaey similar in form 10 that now attempted TO
he act no by the Southern States Experime nj soon
proved that something more wanting TO mako
nation than simple compact or coufederacy, and at
last in l5s7 the people resolved themselves mo grea
pstion--a great American Nation-Thie 1T the sane
time retaining the appellaol by which they lad been
before cancd-the United States Of America The con
Jederacy became nation and government n IS astao-
Mshed-not government Of States but government Of
abe People.
This workingmen, is. your government. Every one
tfyou is directly interested in it, Every of Won i
directly represented in It, IL is your government KEEP
resentatives Senators and President are sonr elected
servants. They exercise theI powers in your name and
for your interes-and you have not ony the right bu'
tbc power to change them at stated periods.
This establishment of . great nation, the whole Of
whose forces material and mora, every dollar Of whose
every man OF whose lvulnt4pA Ntl' liVNbtN
70 lite protection and prosperity is what has made The
greatness OF America and csnsed It's wonderful pros
periiy Man struggling in the OldsWoIld with power
and privilege borne down by despotism. forced into
armies 10 support families and crowns anu Interests for
which he had no love and in which he hal no part
looked with anxiety and hope 10 the great American
experment-the exercise by the people Of ;heir right TO
govern themselves-snd the infant Republic grew in
9Th and power stream Of emigration begun to
fow into the country where labor only Aonored
bat where labor intelligent. and watchtnl made and
executed is own laws.
These men were your fathers, many Of them were
yourselves. This nation is your natiOn-you ere Amer
icaDs allDOt COMMUNICATIONS nor Irish Ame. cans
nor Frtnch-Americans. but Americans.
The Slavery question need not be explained TO You
You well know taat slavery existed here when thc
Government was iorrDel that it permitted 20 re-
main where it existed IN the full belief that it would
gradually die ouf. No dreamed that il would last
thirty years. But il has existed and tTiycd and pros
pered. Finally il became strong as bond 81
political friendship, that It was Hado the base Of
political system and it. advocates. calling the section
wherein II existed the Sogti' claimed for il an equal
night with freedom free labor and set it up equal
the nation They claimed FOR its extension all TIC col
THE United States and it's absolute Git, oil the
Poll below a certain latitude. comprising the best land
pfthe nation. They claimed for a section what be
longed TO the whole When you refused tbs, they
fred upon the fag--the national fag-your Aag-tac
flag of the American peOplc-tEe emblem Of .ts fee
DOM and tore away from your Government s forts aud
territory Where any OF you resisted a. The South he
was whipped or burned. Hanged persecged ban
isbed. You rose in TO svonge your scOrned fag
TO defend your threatened capital. and to show the
world that the nation your fathers had made and that
you still owned, yet powerful glorious, great
nation. and fit home FOR the oppressed.
Your President proclaimed 10 the void. On the
other side Of the water your old enemies, tic mobiles
hnd all those who held power, az proclaimed the
contrary. The governments o. many foreign ma.
lions announced that the experiment bad isled. and
though they hesitated to incur the enmty OF great
tion, By dece-ing that il was broken and openly
Inowledging the Rebels, they practically did the same
thing by proc,aming that the Rebels against the
fional authority had certain bellgerant rights which
they should respect.
Your old enemies loudly stated that you unable
60 maintain the Government that had been established
the nation which bad been formed, tho night which had
been vndicated, and which tie fathers OF l.76 lad
handed down as your heritage.
In vain The workingmen Of Europe put faith in the
decla7aiion Of the workingmen Of America. They
heard Of tie great uprising Of April 1861, and they
laughed 20 scorn the subtle wies Of the arstocrats
who declared that the experiment of free government
had faIed. Emigration did not cease but increased
Before the war, l-js $4,000 had arrived in this
country; in 1889 1900; in LEGO, $4,000 total in
three years before tie war, 397,ooO.
Since the var in 1851 10000; in 1862. 10000 1868,