The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-01
Foreign Correspondence OF The Bosom
Journal
THE W0RKINGMEN OF ENGLAND.
How they are Helping
Themselves.
LETTER FROM CARLETON.
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MANCHESTER. ENG. Oct. 4. 1867.

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MANCHESTER, Eng, Oct4, 1867.
TO the Editor of The Boston Journal:
This great city Is IN the heart Of the
manufacturing district OF England. II
is the cotton metropolis of the United
Kingdom, built on cotton and isus-
tanned by it. 1t is a city OF immense
wealth, and capital is Increasing with
great rapidity. 1t is not such neat.
clean, airy city as Lowell, or Law
renee, or other manufacturing towns
of the United States. but a city Of
one-half million inhabitants. with its
suburbs of Stafford. The whole eOun-
Try is a forest of tall chimneys,
pouring out columns of black smoke
IF the manufacturing interest
increases during the twenty-five years
to come as it has for quarter of u
century gone by, this section of Eng
land will be one vast city-;Ill the way
from Liverpool to Leeds-half way
from the Irish sea to the German
ocean. You may ride sixty miles due
east from Liverpool and never be. able
to loose sight of factory chimnies-
not all for the manufacture of cotton,
but for wooden goods, for everything
under the sun requiring machinery
for its manufacture. In addition to
the chimneys of the factories are those
of the eolleries and founderies. The
whole country is honey combed
Thousands of men, hundreds of feet
under ground, are digging and delving,
sending the bowels Of the earth" up
to the surface to be transmitted into
heat and motion.
..r WORKING MEN.
In this section of the country you
can easily come In contact with the
substratum of English society As a /
geologist studies the peculiar forma-
ton of the earth beneath his feet by 4
the specimen of coal, iron or stone /
brought up from the mines and quar- +
ries, so here in Lancaster you can
with equal ease become acquainted !
the carbonacious- strata OF English |
society. 1t is that formation which,
like the Goals of England, gives mo-
ton, energy, activity to the nation. I I
have been spending several days in
this vicinity to become acquainted .
with the working men. especially to
study the new relation between capt.
tai and labor which had its origin 10 |
Lancashire. Your readers, / am sure, /
will be all the more interested in i,
because 1t was here, in the houses Of
the poor, during the late war, that I
the United States had true, sincere,
honest friends, who. by their heroic
endurance of hardship and privation,
kept England from recognizing the
Confederacy. At the time when there
was a combination of malign influence
at work against the interests of the
United States-though starvation
stared these men in the face-block-
ade running profits, and the influence
of ship owners and of the Emperor Of
France, the Times of London, the ar
istoeraey, members of Parliament, the
with Mr. Carlyle for a leader,
and other influences were at work to
compel the English Government to
give its aid openly for the establish
ing of slavery, these men stood firm
for freedom. At the time when their
own distress was greatest, when the
fires of all these Thousands of fur
naces were ont, when there was no
work to be had, these men, with chill
dren crying for bread around them,
on the last day Of Decent Der. 1862. mat
in public assembly to express their
thanks to Abraham Lincoln for issu-
ing his proclamation of emancipation.
Burnside had been .repulsed
at Fredericksburg 1t was - an
hour of gloom IN Ameri-
ca - gloom by many 4 ,a0-4 FIRE
side. where silent tears were, shed for
those who had fallen IN the strife
gloom by many camp fire along the
banks of the RappaflannockE ." To
expect a restoration of the Union is
as unreasonable as to expectza tresto-
ration of the Heptarcby," was the
sentiment of the London FtrerS. In
the House of Commons, and in the
hall of the Peers, at Council Boards
and on {" Change" an expression of
for the Great Republic was
received with laughter and derision;
but the faith of these men nevef-wa-
vered,. and nineteen days after ,issuing
their address, President Lincoln sent
back his reply: cannot but regard !
your decisive utterances upon the I
question as an instance of sublime
Christian heroism which has not been | {
surpassed in any age OF any country.p {
These Lancashire operatives have I
a movement which pos
sibly may bring about new relations
between employees and Employed 1t
will be my eudeavor to give in brief |
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