ABSTRACT
Desiring the peace, prosperity, and happiness of our country we deem it our duty to address at this eventful period; believing that correct views, just feelings, and a cordial union among all classes of reformers would be the most effective means of peacefully removing all unjust obstructions to our national prosperity, and would form the best security for the advancement of our people. Misery, starving wretchedness, and ill-requited toil, have been proclaimed by our rulers to be the daily lot of millions of our working-class brethren. Over-burthening taxation, restricted trade, debts, bankruptcy and insolvency, are making rapid inroads on the industrial energies and previous accumulations of our middle and upper classes; and yet, amid all this social deterioration our rulers are adding burthen to burthens, and seem resolved to perpetuate them.
