The Cecil Whig

A WORTHY AND SENSIBLE MECHANIC

We call the attention of the working men of all parties to the subjoined paragraph. It speaks the language of good sense and genuine patriotism:

Old Massachusetts. A good Whig mechanic of this city, a blacksmith, who often comes up into our office to get his paper and have a chat, said to us the other evening, "What is there in the policy of Massachusetts which a poor man would wish to see altered?" Said he. "I have always been a mechanic and depended on my daily labor for my bread. I have three children, two sons and one daughter. My oldest boy is an Episcopal minister in New-Jersey; my second is ship captain of a large merchant vessel, and my daughter is qualified to enter any high school as a teacher. The wise laws of Massachusetts and the liberal policy she has ever pursued, have permitted me to give my children so good an education, and I will therefore stand by her good and firm, and do whatever I can to sustain the same liberal policy and keep the old Bay State where she ever has been and ever ought to be." When we hear such sentiments spoken by the real yeomanry of the Commonwealth, it nerves our arm and gives us courage to persevere in the glorious cause of old Whig Massachusetts. Our friend and his brother served in the army during the last war, and his grandfather served in the old French war, and in the war of the Revolution: Yet the modern Democrats call our worthy friend a foe to Republican government. Lowell Courier.