The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-11-19
FROM IOWA.

SIGoURNEY, Nov. is, 1870.
To The Editor Of the woEKHeNAS's Advocate.
| respectfully ask the novel privilege
Of addressing Republicans, Democrats
and Labor Union men, through the
medium of your well conducted Labor
Union journal. AS YOU are entitled to
well grounded reasons before you
mako me welcome to the use Of your
columns, | beg your careful consldera-
tien and generous attention Of the fol-
lowing facts and illustrations, as the
embodiment Of my reasons for this
intrusion on your notice. The good
intended is the apology offer to those
addressed.
O,~ purpose is not to scatter the
ruinous seeds Of strife and discord IN
land where it would be an unpardon-
able offense to rekindle the dying
embers Of an appalling revolution
to cause the spirit of antagonism to
mar the harmony Of those who should
form one united brotherhood. All
strife and discordant Jars between the
existing parties should be hurriedly
shrouded in forgetfulness, and consign-
ed 10 a vault of perpetual silence
among the vacant tOmbs Of noiseless
oblivion.
Our object is to harmonic, not 70
aise 5asF$IS Ssis9 03 T@ n d feeSI,
hand iha work so iilimi@sae, Should
fail to Fonie fish imRaEtsnt results by
single cffort,lt will not y ondshe hos
lion Of my hope with dispa cement,
but will-the cause beng tree from
corrosion-prompt to efforts much more
potent, if not more successful. The
wealth of the world, the honor and
glory Of its grandeSt kingdoms were
trifles in comparison. love il because
it is the glory Of God and the hope Of
His people, and will fight for it down
10 the gates of hell, if -ed be. | in
dite plainly--not insultingly-openly,
not cocertly, since the kisses Of enemies
are deceitfully subtle, "open rebuke
were better than the kisses Of enemies ="
Plain dealing is the rock Of friend
ship hence a generous people and toll
Grant press will make room for frank
ness Of expression.
An organized power, claiming to be
a government, has reckless " dethroned
the rights Of the wealth-producing
people, and the work ana purpose Of
the writer A. 0 repair the damage By
restoring the desolated people to their
rights. Nor will he yield to extraordi-
nary discouragements,b by covering like
slave in ignoble dust, in view Of the
rolling tide Of opposing clements.
We have declared war, but not
against the laymen nor honest officials
of either Of the existing parties. Our
war is against those who have made
war on Us. We viii not surrender 20
the enemy-they must come down be-
fore Us. Ours the battlements, ours
the rampsrts, and we now offer help 70
unite Republicans, Democrats, and all,
heart and hand in the defense of their
own cause against the insidious wlies
and imperious dictates Of the engmy
who-stripped Of all disguise-means
to make slaves of us all without regard
to party lines. creeds, or political KIN
bred ties.
What are we TO do in such an emer
gency? Inspired BY due regard for
our sovereignty and dignity as citizens
of land, the cost of which was the
blood of our progenitOrs, we will do Just
what in the providence OF God is to
be done-that and nothing more, and
that will give us the victory. We
will teach handful Of usurpers that
zee, the people, constitute a power they
must not shall not dare to trifie with. (
We will instruct them-and the lessons
they will not soon forget-that IRE are
The government, and they must sue
cnmb to our sovereign mandates that
are ever true to all, never false 10 any,
we will mildly teach them that zoe are
heir masters, and they oar subjects and
ierUants. If our CAUSE be not right if
ruth, the whole truth, and nothing but