While commenting on the truth that “there is an effort to inflame the minds of the working classes against the more opulent”, and concerned that there be no violence, he…
Category: <span>Working Class Issues</span>
A letter to the Editor, from “W” makes a strong statement that the conditions of the working class merit a dedication to change as much as the condition of the…
An item from the N. E. Baptist Register, titled Religion Among the Poor: here is an affirmation of the fidelity of poor people to the religion of Jesus Christ. “The…
July 15, 1842 Here is an “Interesting Letter from England”, signed only W.H.Ashurst, from Musell Hill, Hornsey, April 30, 1842 The letter makes a number of points: “We are struggling…
July 22, 1842 A brief note: “We understand that two or more of the mills at Lowell have been stopped, and that between two and three thousand factory girls are…
February 16, 1844 Addressed to Rev. Orville Dewey, D.D., Smith responds to a lecture in which Dewey has asserted that emancipated blacks in free states are worse off than the slaves…
March 26, 1847 From Thomas Ingersoll, Westfield, Chaut. Co. N .Y. “I have seen the slavery of the South, and the slavery of the North; and, sir, I find little…
April 23, 1847 Here William West, writing for Boston, April 5, addressed to WLG, calling for greater attention to the evils of wages slavery. The root of the problem is…
May 26, 1848 An article telling of a meeting at Faneuil Hall, largely attended, ” to sympathize with the European Revolution and express the sentiments of the laboring class in…
October 26, 1849 The article, with the above title, is from “The New York correspondent of the Washington Union.” Without including the statistics used to advance the author’s argument, here…
January 10, 1851 An Appeal and Remonstrance, To the Working Men of America who are invested with the Elective Franchise. A long letter, concluding with, “We call upon you, by…
August 20, 1852 A letter to Garrison, from Sarah D. Fish, Rochester, calls for attention to the ways in which domestic servants are mistreated. After recounting the many groups of…
April 28, 1854 Rev. John T. Sargent, of Boston, writes to call attention to readers the plight of young girls on the streets of the city, and he appeals for…
January 6, 1860 Derived from the New York Independent, here is the story of James Power, a native of Wexford, Ireland, twenty-three years of age, a stone-cutter by trade. He…
January 13, 1860 Here is an account of the fall of the Pemberton Mills, in which seven hundred people were buried in the ruins, and two hundred lives were lost…
January 30, 1863 Here is a petition, addressed to the General Court of Massachusetts. An introduction says, “we publish it with the hope that it may be circulated extensively for…
Here is an article telling of a meeting at Faneuil Hall, largely attended, “to sympathize with the European Revolution and express the sentiments of the laboring class in regard to…