Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-08-26
The National Labor Congress.

The delegates to the National LABOR
Congress, in session in Philadelphia, re-
lected the proposition to receive the Gre
dentials of Miss Susan Il. Anthony yester-
day by a vote of sixty-three to twenty
eight. The opposition to her claim was
headed by the members of Topographic
cal Union, No. 6, of New York the rep
resentation being directed by telegraph to
retire from the meeting should Miss An
thony be received. Miss Anthony was
present and displayed her mental grit by
a placid endurance of the discussion which
terminated in her present defeat. She
was consoled by Mrs. Mary d, Walker
Miss anthony cannot be looked upon as
..humiliated' in any sense of the word,
and will no doubt find abundant capital
for further agitation of the woman's rights
question in the action of the Congress.
Indeed it is very probable that she will
claim Il triumph in the matter of her first
reception and the vote given on her side.
We shall watch with interest the prac-
teal results that are to fellow from this
convention. There is no denying the fact
that such a meeting as this is of national
importance. A convention that through
its delegates represents over three hundred
thousand voting. and, for the most part,
thoughtful and intelligent citizens cannot
but be deserving of public attention, even
if viewed only as an exponent of the views
they take of the great political questions
of the day. A glance at the resolutions
proposed at this Congress shows us that
the workingmen themselves are aware of
the power in this way, and preparing, if
not prepared, to use it. These resolutions
take Il wide survey of our political posi-
ton, though some of them do not bear di-
rectly on the workingman, unless in as far
as they respect the general prosperity of
the country although in that view they
interest every one of us. One resolu-
ton, for instance, comes out strongly in
favor of greenback currency {: another looks
with adherence upon free trade a third
comes heavily down upon the bondhold-
ers, and wants to see them paid in green
backs "A fourth proposes an agrarian law,
and a fifth protests against our capitalists
being allowed to import Asiatics into this
country for the purpose of cheapening la
labor. There is also a resolution endors-
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deserves to be passed unanimously, as we
have no doubt it will be.
Some of these resolutions, as we have in
timated, may seem inappropriate to a Ma
tional Labor Congress, and on this point
there Will probably be a considerable diff
ference of opinion among the delegates
themselves, but they at least show a dispo-
sition on the part of the workingmen to or
ganize ON the great political questions of
the day. Such an organization may be
destined as yet to bring forth great politi-
cal results. We find, for example, that in
Massachusetts, the temperance league is a
formidable party for every politician that
does not swear true allegiance to its princi-
pies, and the womans rights party would
like, if possible. to make Il squirt in the
same direction. There is this however to
be observed about the womans's rights parr-
ty, that in England, with at least quite as
much argument, we find far more modes
ty, and at the same time much more real
progress. Will Miss Susan Anthony ex-
plain to us the cause of this d~ifference?
But, putting that question aside for the
present, we shall find, in all probability, a
very curious admixture of political ques-
lions brought into prominence before the
next Presidential election, and this Nation
al Labor Congress, representing the skill
ed labor of the country, may, if unani-
nous determine subjects of tho greatest
future Importance to the country.