Identifier: cu31924014712271 (find matches)
Title: A history of the people of the United States, from the revolution to the civil war
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: McMaster, John Bach, 1852-1932
Subjects: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Mormons
Publisher: New York, Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d that no help would be given by either the friends ofAdams or of Jackson for such a purpose, it disregarded bothparties, nominated candidates of its own for Governor andLieutenant-Governor of New York, and appointed a generalcommittee to call future conventions if necessary. The candi-dates selected were Francis Granger and John Crary. Granger,who had already been nominated for Lieutenant-Governorby the Adams party, declined, and at a second convention ofAntimasons at Le Roy, Solomon Southwick was chosen in hisstead, and polled more than thirty thousand votes. Meanwhile the excitement had spread to Vermont, where,in the congressional election of 1829, seven thousand voteswere cast by the Antimasons. The whole ~New England beltfrom Boston to Buffalo fairly teemed with antimasonic news-papers.* A new political party had arisen to complicate stillmore the political situation in New York, and, indeed, in allthe States from New England to Ohio. • There were thirty-two in New York State.
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1835. WAGES. 121 CHAPTER XLIV. STATE OF THE COUNTEY TEOM 1825 TO 1829. The social and economic conditions of the working peoplein tlie cities—conditions out of wliicli the early labor move-ments grew—did indeed call loudly for reform. Ten yearsof rapid industrial development had brought into prominenceproblems of urban life and municipal government familiarenough to us, but new and quite beyond solution in 1825.The influx of paupers to partake of the benefits of the manycharitable societies; the overcrowded labor market; the stead-ily increasing number of unemployed; the housing of thepoor; the rise of the tenement house; the congestion of popu-lation in limited areas, with all its attendant vice and crime;and the destitution produced by low wages and lack of con-stant employment, had already become matters for serious con-sideration. An unskilled laborer, a hod-carrier, a wood-sawyer,a wood-piler in a city was fortunate if he received seventy-fivecents for twelve hours of work an

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