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Gentlemen,
“tiversany ceo dear next year to celebrate the centennial
Dect tp attra . eclaration of American independence. We
act to Philadelphia 2 concourse of the citizens of
pire built tp und shall point with gratified pride to an
lem an . Fe otican forms of government. We
© poor from all, he where the abject and the humble
fi ’e shall ‘ell 4 Imes and from all lands have found a
°M the limbs of m3 em that we have stricken the shackles
Us Prosperity and millions of slaves. And when we glory in
that almost wid len we boast of all this freedom, let us not
Ousands of citizens , the shadow of Independence Hall tens
Neither khan ho, re Subject toa tyranny and a despotism
W Team of pov. " ca iph ever exercised, and such as in the
f hy, gon tlemen. et was ne’er conceived by sultan or by czar.
10 ‘miner, a n, 16 1s but. a few weeks since I received a letter
is the father of , who had worked in the mines for thirty-six
1a Wellwritten } amily, and, I believe, the owner of a house-
lad to reeeiy ; ctter,—a letter such as any employer would
i " feared 4] © trom his employee,—a letter stating that the
tt they tad at he and his companions were in the wrong,
to Work . tha ne a mistake, that they were anxious to return
MMitteg 6 ¢ 1 tbat’ met me on one or two occasions when a
'S to haye mn Poringmen met one of their employers, he was anx-
Pinion , I nov, ®pinion about the strike. Inever volunteered an
D8 a spit ‘ Wrote or urged any laboringman to do anything
to Show y “es but in this case I wrote a letter and endeavored
se Whie Phi bondent what I supposed to be the folly of the
th "eit of he Ties had been pursuing. He acknowledged
t} ° men Would Y tetter, intimated that he was convinced, and that
ough the return to their employment. It became known
Me. He Wat office that this man had received a letter from
Steat deal 5 » Charged With that as a heinous offense. He had a
; £8 to I tsonal independence of character, he met his oppo-
"2d no ario] Hee, and asked them whether in this country a man
ana SWep Sh to write a letter to whom he pleased and to receive
re het th ae he defied his accusers, ‘The courage with, which
"me; bag 4p vcceeded for the instant, and he left to go to his
When he reached his home at night he found there the
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Wildest