“All who patronize this effort we wish to have discontinue their labor until terms of reconciliation are made.
“Resolved. That we will not go back into the mills to work unless our wages are continued to us as they have been.
“Resolved, That none of us will go back unless they receive us all as one.
“Resolved, That if any have not money enough to carry them home they shall be supplied.
“Let oppression shrug her shoulders,
And a haughty tyrant frown,
And little upstart Ignorance
In mockery look down.
Yet I value not the feeble threats,
Of Tories in disguise,