The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-05-16
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FROM TENNESSEE.


The annual convention Of the Working
men Of Tennessee was recently held at
Nashville. Resolutions indorsing the plat
form Of the Industrial Congress were
unanimously adopted. Mr. Horace H.
Day, who was present, delivered An ad-
dress, in the course Of which he said (.
"And now, looking at the whole field,
where do we stand to-day-not only the
laboring classes, but the whole country
The war overturned not only the entire
financial system, but the entire industrial
system as well. To restore both the fnan-
cial and industrial systems requires not
only patriotism but unseltish devotion in
the spirit Of the true reformer to the great
underlying, controlling questions, affecting
the material, beneficial interests of these
classes, and their peaceful and harmonious
relation to all the others.
In place Of craftsmanship, we have had
exhibited the strife Of the partisan for per-
sonal and sectional interests, and the per
petuation Of mere party ascendancy and
public plumber. Remember your slavehold-
ers asked too much and lost all.
We see the South and West are to-day
practically but conquered provinces, which
the Shylocks Of the East are tapping, de-
plotting and destroying, while your own
and most Of the Southern States are hope
lessly bankrupt-recent events have dem
onstrated that neither reason, appeal, pro
test or warning have yet awakened the
cOnquering section to the fearful impend
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Changers, and thoughtful Christian men,
all are tired out-disgusted with the old
political parties prostituted venal
presses, and other contrivances through
which capital used and controlled both the
old parties These have now finally de-
termined to organize such instrumental
ties Of power as will ultimately give real
reconstruction, with equal and appropriate
advantage to each and all sections, let the
consequences Of our work be what they
may.
The union of the industrial classes look
ing to ultimate political cooperation all
over the land, is now you see practically as
sured. The next step IN the work before
US is the union Of the entire South
and West. This is positive neces-
sity, and in the natural order. Now that
the greed Of the Atlantic border and self
ishness Of the New England States, in con
junction with Wall street, show that they
have nothing in common or to share with
the Southwest, it would take but half an
eye to see that the union Of the West and
South is inevitable and with this union
must follow a strength and power 50 com
plete that, whether remaining with the
East or separated, they have all in their
own hands to determine. | repeat, the
late war gave the Atlantic border pre-
ponderating, controlling influence at Was :
lngton, and no practical, real reconstruc
ton has yet been established. New Eng
land and Wall street allied with the old
worid-a sort Of moneyed oligarchy OF lin
ternational imperialism, has run the Gov
eminent in the spirit Of heartless tyranny,
and has already glutted itself, sapping all
the life and prosperity Of these producing
sections. Under these circumstances, If
they are longer to continue, there can be
no possible advantage to the South and
West, in perpetuating such a union, and 1t
might as well 20 out now as hereafter, and
be understood that the disbanding of Con-
gress without a radical change, such as the
labor reiormers, grangers and farmers de
mand, may be considered equivalent to a
declaration of war by New England and
the North Atlantic States upon the entire
West and South, and all the industrial
wealth, producing classes of the whole
country, not only justifying but compell-
ing the enaction of such extreme measures
as ere now marked out, but even greater
and more far-reaching.
Under any circumstances, the prompt re-
moval of the capital to the West is now a
matter of course.