Excerpt from The Works of Daniel Webster, Vol. 4
On Friday, March 7, in presenting a memorial from the building mechanics of the city and county of Philadelphia, Mr. Webster ad dressed the Senate as follows: -
I rise, Sir, to perform a pleasing duty. It is to lay before the Senate the proceedings of a meeting of the building mechanics of the city and county of Philadelphia, convened for the purpose of expressing their opinions on the present state of the country, on the 24th of February. This meeting consisted of three thousand persons, and was composed of carpenters, masons, brick-makers, bricklayers, painters and glaziers, lime-burners, plasterers, lumber-merchants, and others, whose occupations are connected with the building of houses. I am proud, Sir, that so respectable, so important, and so substantial a class of mechanics have intrusted me with the presentment of their opinions and feelings, respecting the present distress of the country, to the Senate. I am happy if they have seen, in the course pursued by me here, a policy favorable to the protection of their interest, and the prosperity of their families. These intelligent and sensible men, these highly useful citizens, have witnessed the effect of the late measures of government upon their own concerns; and the resolutions which I have now to present fully express their convictions on the subject They propose not to reason, but to testify; they speak what they do know.
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