The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-03-17
From the West Chester Jeffersonian.
Light Hope, the Day Dawns.

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The worxingmen of New York have con-
vened in public meeting to consider the eff
feet of our civil war upon their interests
Several thousand Of them met together, and
they resolved that the present war was
prosecuted for the benefit of the negro, not
the white man, and its result was to enrich
the idle worthless few at the expense of the
toiling millions. A meeting is to be called
in which are to be represented all occupa-
tions in the United States, the members of
which live by their industry.
This movement is the most i'm portant one
which has occurred since the commence
ment of this calamitous, sectional strife.-
1t is the voice of the people which is now
heard rising above the rage of madmen and
thieves. Let the upholders of this bad ad-
minstration stand back and take heed
They have been rioting off of the wealth
produced by the hard hand oflabor, reaping
rich harvests of profits, while the toilers are
condemned almost to want. Matters must
be mended. The mass of the people are
not going to be made hewers of wood and
drawers of water for the idle few. This
war IS fast producing the results here, which
hitherto have been produced in European
communities. The laborers, the producers,
the consumers starve. The traders, the
contractors, the loan dealers, the office
holders, riot in wealth.
No man with a grain of common sense
will deny that it is labor which creates all
the wealth offs country. The bread we eat,
the clothes we wear, the houses we live 10,
are all due to labor. Without the produo-
tions Of the great army of laborers, each in
his pursuits, what would merchants have to
trade on, or rail roads and ships to carry?-
What would become of our Doctors, Law
would not the wheel of the manufactory
stop? Would not the traders in towns and
the importers in cities, close their stores
and country houses? Would not this Abo-
lition Administration fall to pieces. as la
Dor pays the taxes which sustain it?
These things are so. The toiling millions
see and feel iG. Hence their movemeut.-
We say let it spread. No hope of relief is
tn ere but from them. Presidential candi-
dates, bribe taking Senators, blood thirsty
preachers, throat cutting fanatics, beasty
am algam mationists, the cunning contractors,
merchants whose Ledger is their Bible; the
public thieves, who steal our taxes or go
South to steal negroes, houses. plantations;
men who have the soldiers scrip, when do
they wish to see this war ended? Never.
To them it is a windfall. Their pockets
are bursting with gain. They riot at the
best hotels, seek the gambling houses,
drive about with a white mistress in the
day time, and house with a negro wench
by night. The public debt is accumulat-
ing, yearly, atthe rate of a thousand million
Of dollars, to be paid by labor, yet these
scoundrels and swinalors exult that public
credit can still be bolstered up. and the pub
lie Treasury re-6lled for them to thrust
their hands in. Relief from the shoddy
men need not be looked for. The laboring
masses must take cur public affairs in
hand, and bring the government back to be
a white mans goyernme ent. 1t is now mig
gerized, and it is tine that the reign of the
negroes was ended. The stout arms and
brave hearts Of the toilng millions, the pro-
ducers and the consumers must and will do
it. To them is committed the safety of
free institutions.