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influence exercised by their employers over the votes of 

 the 3744 males employed in the mills, when the whigs 

 gain the victory. This outcry on a late occasion became 

 so strong, that, in self-defence, the mill corporations 

 found it expedient to publish a list of votes, showing that 

 no influence in favour of the whig party could have 

 been exercised, inasmuch as a majority of the workmen 

 and managers of the mills actually voted with the demo 

 crats. 



How the feeling of soreness in the minds of the 

 employed, comfortable and well paid as they are, is 

 encouraged by the public press, is shown by such para 

 graphs as the following, which I extract from an Albany 

 periodical : - 



&quot; That prince of manufacturers, Abbott Lawrence, 

 has made a donation of 50,000 dollars, for the purpose 

 of erecting suitable buildings, and endowing professor 

 ships, for a new department of education in the Univer 

 sity of Harvard. . . . This magnificent gift of Mr 

 Lawrence is worthy of praise. How vastly better to do 

 good in one s own lifetime than to hoard up the shining 

 dust. . . . And the inquiry has involuntary arisen 

 in our mind, from whence came this vast wealth ? From 

 the looms and spindles of Lowell. And this is one of 

 those men who have besieged Congress for protection, so 

 they might live. 



&quot; Was any of this trumpet-tongued charity made up 

 from the sixpenny a-week clippings from the wages of 

 the weavers and spinners at Lowell? How many, 

 many thousand extra hours of wearisome, life-wearing 

 toil did it add to the over-wrought limbs and hands of 

 the operatives, in order that one man may be gazetted as 

 a great public benefactor?&quot; 



Even in the House of Assembly, corporations of all 

 kinds have been denounced as instruments of oppression, 

 and as means for overbearing and taking away the rights 



