Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-07

the polls IN November to cast their votes
for the representative laboIing man of the
American nation, ISAAC MYERS,
President ColOred National Labor Union.
German Sentiment.
CINCINNATI, June 6.-The VoIksblatt
in an editorial tomorrow explains the de-
feat of Coltax by stating that in 1868 when
askedsby politicians after bis Inauguration
to lend them his influence with the Presi-
dent, be refused on the ground that the
Vice President had nothing to do with the
distribution of Offices, and they vowed
vengeance for what they eonsidere dhis in
gratitude.
= The VOlksbLGtt speaks rather irreverently
of the platform and demands the civil service
reform which had been latghed at the poll
ticians in Congress. The politicians of Ell
ther party do not mean to reform the civil
service any more. than they intend to abol-
ish the franking privilege (which has also
been demanded by the Philadelphia resolu-
| tions. ~ ed
The platform demands a tariff which
shall adjust duties so as to aid In securing
remuneratiye wages to labor and dpromoting
the industries and prosperity of the whole
country: This is a humbug. Duties are
taxes, and taxes are burthens, whether
they are clothed in fine phrases or not.
The idea that the prosperity of country
can be promoted by taxation is ridiculous.
The question Is here, can taxes be so i'm
posed as to secure the necessary revenue
with the least hardship TO the people. This
question neither the Philadelphia nor the
Cincinnati Convention has approached, nor
will the politicians touch it until the people
have learned to understandit it and will give
effective expression to their will.
The assurance that the public lands shall
not be given away to corporations is not
distinguished by the charm of novelty. It
would be a novelty, however, if Congress
would make up its mind to live to il. So
far Congress has not developed any disPO-
sition TO do so.
The resolution concerning bounties 10
the soldiers we remember to have read be-
fore, but as nobody has manifested the
wicked intent TO stop those bounties it
does not mean much.
That the relations between capital aud Ia
Dor should be recognized and protected, is
declaration looking 10 political election
eering more than to practical legislation.
We confess our inability to fathom its
meaning.
We are refieshed, however, by the asser-
ton that the claim tor female suffrage shall
be treated with respectful consideration.
Do our politicians fear the candidacy of
Victuria Woodruff, or do they dread a
Chrge of bloomer brigade led by the irr-
presSible DR.. Mary Walker.
The platform contains many good and
beautiful things. All platforms do. But
the difficulty, as Charles Francis Adams so
well puts 1t in his letter, is not as to pro-
fessions, but as to their execution. There's !
the rub.
CHICAGO, June 6.-The Illinois Stats |
Zeitlng endorses Grant and Wilson under |
the caption "The Shoemaker and the |
Tanner"
"BIind Fanatics
NEW YORK, June 6.-The Brewers Cor
gress to-day adopted resolutions denouncing
temperance men as pack of blind fanatics |
who could not distinguish malt from spirit |
uOus liquors, and condemning any political |
party which nOminates any candidate who |
has shown himself tool Of the temperance !
faction.
lloyd Garrison Answered.
NEW YORK June 5.-Horace White, of |
the Chicago Tribune, publishes in the Phil
adelphia Inquirer this morning a review of /
VIM. Lloyd GarTisOn's letter TO Sumner,
in which he says Garrison has written a
letter intended to break the force of Sum-
ner's speech. That it was intended for this
purpose is shown by fact that it was imme-
diately given to the press by the writer.
The impartial reader viii search Garrisons
letter in vain to find any attempt 20 dispute
one of the facts asserted by sumner. To
the whole indictment, therefore, he enters
the plea Of guilty, and seeks TO escape un-
der a demune-. he says, in effect: We
admit all you have alleged, but what Of it?
To take notice Of such things, says Garri-
son, will assuredly serve the purposes of the
worst foes that the cause of impartial free
dom has most to fear. Here, if any where,
the reader must find the moral
prop or excuse which is TO
sustain Garrison's oblivi BUSINESS of Sum-
ner's facts a1d arguments. In Garrison's
view then, the election of Greeley and
Brown will assuredly subserve the purposes
Of the worst foes the cause of impartial
freedom has most to fear. Mr.. White
draws contrast between Garrison's anti
slavery labOrs and thosa of Greedy and
Brown for the past eighteen years, and
says that with the latter there has been
neither variableness or shadow of turning,
hat he took up the battle VIII 9re Garrison
aid it down. a few years since Garrison
declared the mission of the auii slavery
society accomplished, and that it should
lisband. Has the Endorsement of the Gin
,innati platform by the former opponents
If impartial freedom so changed it for the /!
worse that the anti-slavery society ought to !
'eOrganize, dust oil its old banners and
Ound the alarm anew? TO my mind the Z
most hopeful sign of the present day is the {
Of all organized Oppes ton to :
IMPARTIAL freedom. such opposition can /.
,nly be made effective when some political l
,arty is bold enough TO declare and avow !,
is opposition. Secret opposition will be !,
impartial unless aroused to activity /
y some such spirit as that which perVaded
lis letter. This spirit so unlike that which il
his controversy with Wendell b
Phillips over the honorable term of the anti Il
lavery society, tends willingly or unWil- il
Ingly to keep in compact force and steady t
discipline under their old traditions three
Million of Democratic votes, a minority in P
eed, but minority which any accident
nay turn into majority. This does not l.
eem to me to be the path leading to the
ornament triumph of the cause of impair II
al freedom which ought to be as high fl
bove the reach Of political strife, as serene
2 composed and unquestioned as its bronse a
representative on the summit of the Capi Fl
0l is high above the tumluts which rage
eneath it. a
The Labor Reform Party.
PHILADELPHIA, June 5.-The Exccl- y
We Committee of the Labor Reform party
the State have adopted resolutions re-
,icing over the practical triumph Of the
ght hour principle in New York, and
alling upon the wOrkingmen of Pennsylva-
ia to inaugurate the same system in this