Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-15

slave, poorly paid and snubbed by the
"gentry,u associations of wOrkingmen
against oppression by employers have
some foundation in reason; but In our
country, we stand upon the common
| plane of manhood, and "strikes' u Ia
Europe ard degrading TO the true Ameri-
can character.
The magnitude of this '1ong strike"
may have been discovered in the fact
that there are at present some
THIRTY THOUSAND MEN
engaged in it. Allowing one-third of
these men to be men of family, with an
average of five members to each family,
we have seventy thousand persons in
this city deprived of their means Of
support by this strike. We learn from
the World thatthe trades-unions, which
a year ago numbered only sever thou
sand five hundred, number this year
one hundred thousand. OF these, the
Eight-Hour League, composed of cabi-
net and pianO-makers, numbers TWEEN
ty-One thousand. In some instances,
the t'bOsses'' have acceded 10 the de-
mands of the men; in others, the en-
ployers declare they will neve surren-
der. The war will doubtless end in a
compromise, but the end must be the
re-establishment of the principle which
is as old as civilization, that the en-
ploy0r is free to employ all those whom
he may select at such wages as are mu-
tually agreed upon, and that no man
has a right to interfere withthe employ
er, or employee, in the discharge of
their mutual obligations.
We beg pardon for the length of these
remarks, but the strike is Just now one
of the great questions of the day.
PoLITICs-THE CHANCES.
The nomination of General Grant,
with Henry Wilson as second, was not
honored by any demonstration here. 1t
was asserted that the reaso why there
was no salute fired, as was done ten
minutes after the nomination of Horace
Greeley, was because all the spare ord
nance here had been sold by General
Grant to the French during the Franco.
Prussian wal, and that even if there had
been guns there was nobodyt to fire them,
all the GRANTEES being at the conven-
ton in Philadelphia nominating MI.
Grant.
GREELEY'S POPULARITY DAILY IN
CREASING.
The headquarters of Liberal Republi-
can nominees are at the Astor House.
We had the pleasure of meeting there
many leading men from all parts of the
country, and neve was there greater
unanimity of opinion as that expressed
on the subject of Mr.. Greeley's be-
ing the next President of these
United States. The universal opin-
ion is that Horace Greeley will
receive the largest popular vote ever
given to a Presidential candidate since
the daysof "Old Hickory" White hats
are all the rage. Men see in Horace
Greeley's white hat the emblem of
peace, guided, comprised and controlled
by brains. The reticent, fumigating
man who has converted the White
House into a camp, is to give place to a
selfmade American citizen, large of
brain, large of heart, and large in his
great experience of the wants, senti-
ments and pecularities of the American
people. Such a man the country needs,
such a man it will inaugurate as Presi-
dent on the fourth day of March 1878.
A pOlitico-militaTy coup d'etGt is con-
templated at the Greedy Headquarters.
1t will be lead by such as
General Fremont, General G.. b.
McClelland, General Hooker, General
Barnem, General Peck, General Kill
patrick, and a host of others. The
country will hear of it in time. It Will
mean the election of Horace Greeley
and Governor b. Gratz Brown as the
will and wish of the men who fought for
the Union, and a the evidence full and
perfect that peace is restored to the
whole country, and that the sections
divided by carpetbag radicalism will
uflflr4 hn-Anu &C I-ANI..- z--l IL ITA-I-N
and henceforth be as fellow-citi-
zens and not aliens and foreigners in the
We took a trip down the bay yester-
day, of which we may have something
to say in our next. Weather pleasant;
thermometer seventy in the shade.
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