The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-12-19
The Prospects OF TorEhern
UOrRtngmcn.


public and private works. How are the
thousands upon thousands of mechanics
and latorers, thus thrown out of en-
ployment, to live through the dreary
winter which has just commencedY In
the city of New York alone, we learn
that fifty thousand working people are
forcibly idle. The same may be said of
every city in the North. While the
stagnation Of all branches of business is
already so~-severely felt in the North,
the mad Legislation Of Congress is hur.
rying ten millions Of people in the Scath
to a condition which i, likely to culmi.
nate in absolute starvation. The rich
lands of the South-which, in a state Of
but partial cultivation, whilom produced
more than two-thirds of the wealth of
the entire natioD-are now fast running
to weeds, whilst the black cultivators
are indulging in a political carnival, un'
der the protection of United States bay>
oncts, awaiting with impatience that
long expected and oft promised mil!eni-
um, when they shall legislate themselves
into plenty of pork and hominy, with
plenty of nothing at all to dol Mean
while the white owners of the soil
without capital and without labor;
without the power of helping themselves;
with their hands tied by unconstitution-
al Legislation, see approaching ruin, STAR
ing them in the face, while the worse
class of scoundrels, spewed from the
Northern dens of infamy, which they
alternately occupied with our Northern
penitentiaries, now occupy the highest
seats in the Southern State conventions
educate the blacks in the noble science
of legal robbery and legislative swind-
ling, and taunt the native whites as dis.
franchised rebels and outlawed traitors!
In short, the South, which, un der
wise and liberal legislation, and under
the Constitution, should now offer to the
mechanics of the North ten millions of
paying consumers, will soon exhibit to
their astonished gaze ten million pau
pers, depending upon their charity for
precarious subsistence. The South,
whose exuberent products sh ou ! d
freight our ships; infuse new life into
our shipping interests and PAY az f for Ona
past, as an exporting section of our
country. The South, which formerly
gave vigor to our manufactures and to
our commerce, will, in its poverty, be
compelled to dispense with the goods it
cannot pay for. The South, under the
new Radical Congo regime, like the
once fourishing Islands OF Jamaica and
Hayti, will be the scene of squalid
wretchedness, of anarchy, of crime and
utter decentralization And all this loss
of national wealth, natioual strength and
national honor-all this misery, humili-
alton and degradation, in the South and
consequently in the North, is to perpet-
uate the reign of Thaddeus Stevens, of
Cameron, of Kelley, of Sumner, of
Wade, of Colfax, of Butler, of Ashley,
of Schenck, and of host of political
harpies who have battened upon the
public spoils until their bloated and fes-
tering corruption stinks in the nostrils of
a disgusted people How long, o
workmen of the north, will you uphold,
by your votes, the reckless demagogues
who, in their blind ambition, thus dry
up the sources of your prosperity y? How
much longer will you be deluded by
their deceitful cry of "protectton TOR
american labor" whilst their only
care is to swell the purses of princely
capitalists and to cram your money into
their own pockets?
The time has come when, unfortun.
ately, you must feel calamitous conse-
quences of the unjust, tyrannical, waste
ful, destructive legislation of past years. |
But, thanks to just and merciful God, |
the time is not far off when, at the bal.
lot-box, you can and will hurl from
their places the bold usurpers who have |
cOnspired against your government,
your freedom, and your national pros
perity!
In the States Of Connecticut, of Cal
ifornia, of Ohio, of New Jersey, of
Maryland, of Kentucky, of New York,
the people have already spoken. Even
in Boston and Pittsburg, heretofore the