New Hampshire Statesman

WORKINGMEN! STAND BY YOUR RIGHTS!

Congress adjourned yesterday. Several attempts were made during the last week of the session, by the friends of American industry and Free Labor, to procure such a modification of the tariff as would afford some little relief to the prostrate interests of the country. But all in vain. The free traders of the South, aided by their subservient allies, the Northern Locofocos, voted down all amendments which were proposed. Conspicuous among these doughfaces, were Peaslee, Hibbard and Morrison of this State! These men, who know that all the smaller manufacturing establishments in this State are now suspended, and their workmen turned out of employment, in consequence of the operation of the Tariff of 1846, voted against all attempts to modify that Tariff, so as to set the wheels in motion! The Southern slave holder when he demands a law to catch his fugitive slaves, gets it The Peaslees and Hibbards vote for it with alacrity however infamous it may be. But when their own constituents—the laboring man and the laboring women of New Hampshire—ask them for a law which will enable them to live, they turn a deaf ear to their petition! Freemen! Voters!—Will you not remember these men at the polls? Remember, also, that George W. Kittredge, another doughface of the same sort, asks you to elect him to the next Congress, so that he can add his vote to theirs, in favor of fugitive slave laws, but against all laws for the protection of free men! Remember, that he comes before you as a "Northern man with Southern principles," or rather with no honest principles of any kind. If you vote for him, you vote for a man who will give all his influence to sustain the present Tariff—a Tariff which has already taken thousands of dollars from the hard earned wages of the Northern laborer to gratify the pride and pamper the indolence of the Southern Slaveholder.—Dover Enquirer