Richmond manufacturers and Employees.
If our manufacturers are to be spared the distressing necessity of discharging hands, their customers in the country and elsewhere, who are able, ought to meet their obligations promptly. Many of them are able, but from timidity and distrust of the future, are hanging back. Let them reflect that there are hundreds of poor man who, by their shortcomings, may be deprived of the means of life, and they and their families consigned to helpless want and suffering. This is a terrible condition, one which those to whom we appeal are in no danger of in any event, and therefore we invoke them, for humanity's sake, to say nothing of justice, to come up to the help of our manufacturers, and save them from the dismal alternative of discharging men, just on the eve of all the rigors of winter.
