Year: 1862

There lives in New England class of born
aristOcrats, more rich, more grasping and more
formidable than the shareholders of the South
and more dangerous 10 the perpetuity of our re-
publican form of government. In the census
book the class which alluded to is set down as
manufacturers They are more numerous
than all the shareholders of the United States,
more arrogant and more powerful. They live
and thrive upon the labor of whitemen, whose
manhood they despise. They respect the laborer
less than the machines driven in their mills
They measure the working man the purchaser
in the slave mart measures the negro on the block
by the size of his muscle and health of his
blood. They build great churches dedicated to
God, in which the cushioned seats are for the rich
and the back seats for the poor. They build for
themselves splendid mansions-to the working
men they rent dwellings little better than huts,
or send them in masses to cheap boarding houses
Not contented with an exclusive political, financial
and social dominion within their own States, they
seek to convert the Federal Government to their
use, and make the whole country tributary to
their prosperity. Their sons swarm in the offices
at Washington and in the army, and their repre-
sentatives infest every foreign capital and court
If the Government has fat and heavy contracts
to dispose of, they claim them, as if they owned
the patronage of the Government by prescrip-
ton. They force tariff bills through Congress,
that they may be protected and enriched. The
agricultural and producing sections of the coun-
try they look upon as but dependencies upon
their greatness and power. They force the West
to pay tribute to them, as the provinces of Rome
were forced to enrich the mistress of the Old
World with barbaric spoil. They set up monster
banks with monster circulatons unsecured, and
force the West to accept their promises to pay at
premium, and refuse to receive our secured pa
per but at discount. They force us to pay
them large profits, and receive our productions at
the first cost of the..hard labor which produces
them and the freight which transports them. The
old and poor who have spent their lives unre-
Quilted in their service they cast into their pauper
houses and rob them of their civil rights, or farm
them out verify slaves. The white oppressed
OF other lands they welcome to their shops and
mills, conferring upon them the boon of hard Ia
Dor and cheap wages, but allowing them no rights
OF suffrage for many years after they reach our
shores. To day they are urging through Con-
gress grievously unequal tax upon the West to
pay the expenses of a war insdgated by them
'selyes, and from which they are reaping gigantic
sums-growing wealthy and strong upon the
Affections of the nation, while they endeavor to
escape the main portion of the burden They
desire disunion, that they may more thoroughly
control the government They desire perpetual
war, that they may reap its ,spois. They desire
change in the system of government, that
arstocracy may rule. They desire permanent
national debt, that the rich may own the nation,
dictate its principles, mould its policy. and con-
troll its agents


III the West respects itself, it will soon begin
to realize its rights end its dangers, and by de-
Tending the one, avoid the other. 1t lie ques-
ton of political and financial slavery-an issue
between the rights and powers Of free white la
Dor, and the grasping ambition and selfish domi-
nation of an arrogant monied aristocracy. The
West-ihe garden of the world-must be poor,
must be taxed, must be ridden down, until il has
both learned its power and dare assert it.-MI-