The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-29


these are destroyed, the developement of hui
man knowledge and the progress of morals
cease, for these are inseparable from the pro-
gress Of industry and of national wealth.
The LABOR MOVEMENT IN New ENGLAND
We publish to-day a number of interesting let
tiers from New England, describing the pro.
gress Of the labor movement. Among the cor
respondence will be found letter from Haver-
hill, Mass, in which it is stated that at that
place the strike was discontinued on the 25th
instant, owing to want of material aid, and
to the fact of some of the strikers having gone
to work. This was to be expected. The CAPT
talist can always hold out longer than the
laborer; and though he is severely punished in
the loss Of his profits for the time being, and
sometimes in the permanent loss of his Gus
TONERS, he is never coerced by restitution to
succumb to the demands of the operatives.
They, on the contrary, can only hold out so
long as the subscriptions raised to sustain
them may last Scarcely any of them can have
resources of their own from the miserable
pittances they receive from their employers.
Some of the letters show that in other locali
ties the strikers have been successful.
Among the most curious Developments in
this movement is the invitation from South
ern communities to the strikers to emf
CRATE among them and receive liv-
ing remuneration for their labor, which
is denied them at the North-the most
off
to Northern fanaticism, which seeks to over
throw the institutions of the South 1t will
also be seen that at New Orleans a movement
is being set on foot to send relefto the distress
ed factory hands, and the strongest sympathy
is expressed for them Whatever sympathy
and relief may be afforded will not be greater
than is needed and deserved. II can only be
extreme necessity that compels so many women
to appear in public, and lend their countenance
to the cause of labor.
1t is worthy of remark that the republican
journals and republican leaders, while they shed
crocodile tears for the imaginary woes of happy
blacks q thousand miles away, have no SYM
patty with the suffering humanity Of the white
race, including women and children. at their
own doors. They are opposed to the cause of
white labor, and do not wish to see the operative
class obtain prices by which they can live. Their
sympathies are all with the capitalist and the
moneyed corporations; and this is the case with
the Anti.Slavery Society of Epglaud. Lord
Brougham, for example. who is the foremost of
the abolitonists, has ever been the uncom-
promising enemy of the interests of the work
ingman, If bis skin happened to be white, and
is VIGOROUSLY opposed to the progress of re-
form aud all liberal measures for the masses of
the people. In republican Massachusetts,,
niggers can vote without limit, while white men,
though naturalized citizens, cannot vote if
they were born in foreign land; it is neces-
sary not only that they should be citizens Of the
United States, after q residence of five years,
the utmost time required in any other State,
but they must be seven years in the country. In
several States a residence of even one year en-
titles the foreigner to vote who has declared his
intention to become a citizen but Massa.
chusetts, under the influence of republication,
has changed its constitution, and insists upon
residence of seven years--two years longer than
any other State requires, and two years longer
than the laws of Congress have fixed as the
term of probation after which patriotic emf
grants of good character may become citizens
of the United States, and on perfect footing with
natives of the soil. Thus the policy Of the re-
publicans is to defy the niger and oppose
botf the interests and the liberties of the poor
workingman with skin colored like their own
PoIYGAMY IN CONGRESS Some of the friends
of Mr. NOEL think we have done him an inius-
tee in recent article on moral Legislation
in Congress" in clubbing him Reverend and
assure us that he does not belong to that race
of Scribes and Pharisees who claim to be bet
ter than their neighbors; and moreover, that
we have Inexperienced his bill in relation to
the Territories, and that it was the Rev. Mr. Nell
son, of Tennessee, who reported the bill to
prohibit polygamy. 1t is all very we'll for
man, and particularly for member of Con-
gress, to have friends to take care Of his repu-
tation; but we opine, in view of the fact that
Mr.. NOEL has been smart enough to get into
Congress that he is perfectly able to "hoe his
own row while there, without assistance from
oficious friends. As for the respective bills Of
Mr.. NOEL and Mr.. Nelson, we comprehend them
perfectly. Mr.. Nelson wishes in the intensity
of his moral impulses, merely to prohibit po-
lygamy in Utah: MIR. Noell would 60 still fur
Their. He proceeds on the idea that the people
of Utah have proven themselves unworthy and
incapable Of self government, and SO he would
have Congress repeal so much Of the organic
act as provides for an elective Legislature, and
transfer the power of local legislation to o