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The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], The way the Irish are Drought into the Shambles. (search)
and then landed. A few of them strayed away from their companions, but the remainder came on to Boston in the afternoon train in charge of the emigrant agent a Mr. Finney, under whose inducements and promises they left their homes. Upon their arrival in this city the men were conducted to an old building on Banker Hill street, in parts like these assumed by Barney Williams and Florence. Their story is, that throw were induced to come to this country through the representation of this Mr. Finney, who was announced in the papers as an "emigration agent for the principal railroads in New England, who was commissioned to procure 1,000 laborers." The terms be offered them were a free passage, work immediately upon arrival, a new suit of clothes and two pound a month and found, for wages. Mr. Finney now declares himself to be agent for Mr. Kidder, and Mr. Kidder protests that because the men to be brought over here in good faith actually and cond likely to work upon the Works, and