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The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
mployment in Philadelphia, was held in that city on the 27th. They were principally mechanics and factory hands, and all they wanted was to obtain an honest livelihood. Some of them had been out of employment four, five and six months, and their means of support were exhausted. It was represented that there were men in their midst who had not tasted meat for months; men who had not received two meals a day for months; others had lived on one meal a day; one man died from starvation. Mr. Michael Ward said, "no one need tell him that he is in the midst of doleful misery; that starvation abounds in every district. Starvation had sent some to their final resting place already. There were some few cases of this kind, but many are actually starving by degrees; they are dying — sacrifices to those political movers who have destroyed the happy Union that used to furnish us plenty of employment, and by that employment a sufficiency to purchase the necessaries of existence. These creature