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country, are determined to annihilate our works
of handicraft and to deprive the craftsmen of the
very occupations which bring them bread for
their families. What signifies the abuse of pa.
tronage in the lavish expenditure Of a few thou.
sand dollars beyond the strict authority of the
law, and about which politicians of an opposite
side make so much noise compared with syste.
matte attempt to break up the mechanic arts Of
the country, and to transfer the means Of the
Treasury made up from the contributions OF our
own citizens, to the pockets Of foreign workmen
in foreign countries? 1t is as nothing; the one
is mere attack, to limited extent, upon the al
ready substantial purse of the nation; the other is
against principle, and calculated to destroy the
energies of the people, and to drive them from the
pursuits of honest industry to idleness vagrancy,
and rebellion.


We trust our mechanics will direct the action
of their representatives in Congress to this sub
ject, that although the reprehensible conduct
cannot be palliated, the perpetrators may be ex-
posed, and future repetition of it be prevented.


There must be something behind the curtain
of this matter, that the public eye has not yet
seen; and we should not be at all surprised when
an investigation of this business takes place, if il
should turn out that this sending to Europe for
articles for public consumption, which are just as
well made here as there, was planned and exc
cuted well for certain set Of foreigners in this
city, for the other set of foreigners in Europe,
who are in this way permitted to take the occupa-
tions and the bread of industry from our own
tradesmen.