The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-28

- Ht11f-s4e1tS views on the SIlh-
WAsHlNe1oN, Aug. o5.-The Com
mltlee OF the Baltimore In of fs5ntrrlsss
bad an interview with die Pregi9is5t
t1lS attefno1n. Mr.. John Hinehcliffe.
'ot Illinois spoke IN behalf OF tie COM
mittee. He said that the Congress did not
assemble for any political object, but
Tor the purpose of securing certain re-
forms, the principal of which was the
establishment OF the eight hour system. :.
He asked the President to follow the
example OF Mr.. Van Buren,, who caused
the hours OF labor in the navy yards
ana other mechanical depots of govern
ment 70 be fixed at ten hours. II was
now believed. that further reduction
should be made to eight hours. Mr..
Hinchclife also asked the Presidents
attention 70 the disposition of the pub
lie lands, with the view of preventing
them from going into the hands of
speculators and monopOlists. The
working men alsodemanded protection
from foreign pauper labor and convict
labor, but in this respect they asked for
no particular assistance. They were
determined to take the matter into their
own hands, but desired some recOgnf-
ton frOmithe head of the nation, who:
they believeds was in sympathy with
/ them. III 80
The President in response said he WAS
/
this visit and for the opportunity thus
afforded Of conveEsing with them. He
was gratified that they had Thought
/ proper to pay their respects to him and
1 shoW their Difference. He should not nm
/ dertake 10 reply in the form OF q speech
/ to what had been said but rather in the
4 way of conversation. lt was scarcely
necessary for him to do more than refer
them TO his past record without making
any declarations. Reversing the order
4 OF the subjects to which allusIon had
been mades he would say that the one
of convict labor was familiar to him,
for IN the legislature of his own State
I he introduced a resolution and under
took to show. that it not only discriIni-
mated against articles manufactured
outside Of the Penitentiary but it had a
| tendency to degrade honest labor; his
| observations since that time confirmed
him in the business of the opinion then
/ expressed. m iu.
BE had sought to prepare the public
i mind for the adoption of measures to
remedy the evil with regard to the pub
1 lie lands. It was known to all how
long he had laborod for the homestead
] policy dating as far back as 1916. At
4 first he was met with taunts and ieeFs,
but finally in 1850 or 1851, the object
| was Consummated in the House Of
Representatives in the shape ST bill.
1t went to the Senate and there was
/ lost. Subsequently he was sent to the
| Senate, and there he followed up the
subject when the bill was passed by
1 that body and the House of Represen-
! tativeS, but was vetoed by President
Buchanan. He had always been OpOs-
ed to the monopoly of public lands and
the speculRtiOns incident to them;
| therefore, in the discussions OF the
homestead policy, he had made vRri-
GUS estimates and calculations to show
! that as financial measure it would in
I crease the revenues of the government
while increasing the happiness and
\ prosperity of the people. Only short
time ago he gave evidence of his oppo-
sition TO HIonopOlies in land. 8H
The chairman of the committee here
said that the committee remembered
very well his veto of the Montana
Manufacturing Company's bill.
| The President remarked that he was
in favor OF the principle that working
4 men should have suitable hours for Ia.
| Dor, for rest, and for their intellectual
culture. This was a proposition self
evident to his mind, and he was glad to
i see tho country worked up to it, The
men of labor ought to come forward
and assert their position. Just in this
connection, he would say that this is a
very Important time to speak of indie
pendence, for there were many cords
and Bhackles being fastened on the peo-
pie WhiUn ought TO be broken,
He had always been extreme demo-
cratic, in the prOpersense of the term.
and yet he was in favor of one kind of
aristocracy-t of labor. The labor
ing man, with VirtuOus and industrious
habits, constitutes the true aristOeracy;
/ therefore, he was for an aristOcracY OF
| labor, for on that all our national pros
/ perity rests. AS to the number of hours
! which should constitute a days labor,
| that WINS matter of detail and expert
eneei which they could consider and
settle as they went along; but he would
say that he was in favor OF the shortest
number of hours for a davis work
which would accomplish its ends. N
Assuming all these propositions, he
would say 10 those before him. that If
he.was notahead of some, he had start
ed as soon. This sentences was received
/ with enthusiastic manifestations of apl
/ probatiOn,l They had his sympathy as
tar as 70 was worth anything, and his
/ influence to carry out their great OBJ
jeets. dis acts would correspond with
what he had just said. ia{fea
| Mr.. HinchcIif then remarked:
Allow ME, Mr.. President, to thank
| you, on behalf OF these gentlemen. for
/ the honor OF this interview, and also to
thank You on behalf of the laboffng
| people Of the United States, for the SEM
] timents Yon have expressed. eifiae
On the concluBlon of these remarks
/ the spokesman Of the workingmen in
trodnced the members individually TO
the President. The delegation then re-
tired, evidently much satisfied with
their Interview with the President.
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Southern LoyAlists tOIheIF Northern
SEiends--InVitatI to she "a ofSeI14
tembeE Meeting 9 -i-.,i a'i &
rNFW YORK, August 21.1The follow
ing appeal from Southern loyalists is
| published In the Post :
TO ne Loyal Hearts Of The NutioE.
I, Ninety isllassy years ago our fathers pro-