Alexandria Gazette

One of the Custom House officers lately on his round of duty, entered the workshop of a mechanic whom he found with two or three hands hard at work. The universal topic of hard times was soon started when [the officer] preaches the true Jackson doctrine "To be sure the times are hard for the great manufacturers, who will have to shut up; and I am glad on't. They are petty aristocrats, and they ought to go down. I hope they will go down."

Mechanic: "we working men are all to be broken up, are we, that you pap-feeders may live and laze ha That no doctrine for my market No no says the diplomatic Jackson man, "such men as you, who work on the bench and employ only two or three hands, are the bone and muscle and must be sustained; but it is your rich aristocrats who have great shops and thirty or a hundred hands that ought to go down and must go down. But such as you, my good fellow, must be sustained."

"I understand you now," was the reply; so long as I work hard here and am poor, I'm to be sustained—in nothing but when I get the means to live and educate my children, and think I have earned the right to enjoy in ease and comfort the few last days of my life, then I'm to be broke down, am I? You lick-spittle slave of Andrew Jackson, I tell you if I am not rich I hope to be so some time; it's what I'm working for; and I wont help such lazy pap feeding tools as you are to destroy honest men, who have worked as hard as I do, because they have got means to live at ease. I tell you I want to live at ease when I can honestly: I tell you it is what I work hard and live prudently for, and I tell you moreover that there's the door.—Connecticut Journal.