FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. l8g 



or otherwise destroyed ; that many more 

 millions worth of damage has been effected 

 by the derangement of business ; that num 

 bers of lives have been sacrificed, and incal 

 culable misery has been inflicted over a vast 

 extent of territory by combinations of men 

 banded together to prevent other men, if 

 possible, from doing just what our labouring 

 men have done at Underledge, just what the 

 intelligent and industrious workingman has 

 been doing for several thousand years past, 

 the best that he could do for himself and 

 his family, as an honest, self-respecting 

 member of society. 



This is the situation as it appears to us. 

 We suppose that a man can give up work 

 ing if he chooses, if he thereby breaks no 

 contract, and does not compel others to 

 support him in idleness; but there, so far as 

 we can perceive, his right ends. When he 

 undertakes to prevent others from work 

 ing who desire to do so, he is acting as an 

 enemy of the first principle upon which 

 civilization and society rest ; he is guilty 

 of treason against the race, and there is 

 no punishment which the race can impose 

 which is a fit measure of his guilt. This 

 treason must be put down if it takes every 

 able-bodied man, and the cripples also, and 



