The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-09-25

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To your paper received to-day, | find
communication, over the signature Of "No-
remacuh." in which complimentary notice is
made to OF previous article Of I'D. c."
Fully and with sadness do / appreciate
what he says in regard to sufferings Of the
settlers 10 Kansas, and the wrongs done to
them aud, in previous communication to
your paper, alluded to that great outrage
Of the monopolists upon those lands and
the wrong Of the government in disposing Of
those lands to soulless spectators. But it
10 since then that the government has COM
mitted the still greater wrong Of ordering
o. s. troops to that region 70 enforce the
netarious claims against the rights Of the set
tiers-that very army which their labor now
feeds.
But that transaction is only in keeping
and is consistent with the numerous usurpa-
tions and swindles Of the present dominant
psrty-commencing back with the Thirty
ninth Congress-in which congressman and
senator's have been enriched at the expense
Of the toiling masses Of the country and /
almost feel and say that these working class
CO deserve to be thus wronged and oppressed
until they will give up their servifity to old
demagogues and parties, ane boldly and
wisely break from them and come out inde-
pendently, and vote for intelligent honest
members Of their own classes, who have sym
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Just laws and administer the government for
the impartial welfare Of all and instead Of
aiding specially the already too powerful.
money interests to rob and oppress the la
borers, but which shall protect them against
the insolence and usurpations Of purse-proud
monopolist.
There will be-there can be-no relief, no
reform until al the laboring classes cease
supporting the old parties, and unite in per-
sistant loyalty to their own classes, with the
6rm adherence hitherto shown to the old
parties, and with the sane faithful combine
ton Of thought and action which monopo-
lists exhibit We must have union OF pur-
pose, and harmony Of effect in q new party,
Of all working classes, which really comprise
. large majority Of oil the voters OF our own
country. When this is done labor will have
justice, and arrogant, over-reaching land mon
opoly, and all other monopolies, will cease,
and not till then. Then the Government
troops-supported and fed by the millions of
toilers-and will not again be sent to the
frontier settlements Of hard toilers to COM
Eel them into submission to railroad and
other spectators, or worse still to drive
them from their homes and farms which have
been built up with hardest toll amidst desti-
tuition and danger. How soldiers, who have
suffered the bitterness Of war can vote for
such an administration, is difficulty to re-
concile, or laborers too.
t" Noremacuh" is mistaken in saying that
D. S. G. voted for Grant. He did no such
thing, be saw she drift Of the dominant party
too early, to lend himself to such assump-
tons and rapacity. He fought against the
rebellion and traitors, and is still suffering
from wounds received in that war, and 10
still ready to fight against usurpers, mono
polists, and oil other trlitors to true repub
licanism. or who would vtiate our noble svs-
TEN Of Government. d. 8. U.