To the Working men.
--Listen! Let us ask you a few practical questions: Who gives
Messrs. Rham,
Talbot. Archer and
Anderson orders for machinery, and thus enables them to pay you your wages?
The South--the
Railroad Presidents, the
Sugar Planters and Cotton Growers of the
South.
Where would you be, and where would the
manufactures of
Richmond be, without the patronage of the
South?
You, in this monetary crisis, would now be idle on the streets, and
Richmond lose her position as the manufacturing city of the
South.
Do our manufacturers get any
orders from the
North? Why did the Lester
Sewing Machine establishment locate itself in this Southern town?
Above all, what will be the effect upon the minds of
Southern men, in
Louisiana,
Georgia.
Alabama, &c., when they see submissionists elected from a city whose very existence is dependent upon Southern traffic and Southern patronage?
Ponder on these things, and you cannot fail to appreciate and
act upon your honest convictions.
Anvil.
Are not the
Northern manufacturers your rivals and competitors?
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