ABSTRACT
The manufacturing labourers of the country are now again, apparently, quietly engaged in the prosecution of their ordinary industrial pursuits; but are they, because quiet, contented with their condition? for, without this feeling predominates among them, there can be no security for society. The punishments of law, or the terrors of military execution, may keep vast masses of discontented men for a while in subjection; but they can only be rendered contented and trustworthy by the exercise of justice and humanity. The people, universally, would then have an interest, direct and personal, in the advance of mechanical improvement. Reduction in the remuneration for labour is the plague-spot of advancing civilization everywhere.
