The Life, Speeches, Labors and Essays of William H. Sylvis; Late President of the Iron-Moulders' International Union and Also of the National Labor Un

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1872 Excerpt: ... his wife and child? Shall she not wear who spins; he eat who sows? Shall the purple juice recruit no more the fainting vine-dresser, or pictures deck or choicest harmony cheer the dwellings of the poor? Yes! By the living God shall they. By the very majesty of heaven, man, man himself, shall Waken from the trance of ages, and the producer and the consumer, the creator of enjoyments and he who revels in them, shall be one and indivisible once more. Nature's glad voices shall breathe out peacefully again. The carolling birds, the whispering winds, the gorgeous clouds and perfumed flowers, the sunny earth, the mighty ocean, man's glorious beauty, speak seraph-toned his ineffable destiny, the faint foreshadowings of his final home. ADDRESS DELIVERED AT BOSTON, JANUARY, 1867. Oentlemen of the Convention: --I greet you, to-day, as co-laborers in the great work of reform, and hail this large representation as an evidence that our organization has extended its field of usefulness over a vast extent of country for some years divided from us by internal dissensions. I need not say that I feel gratified to know that a restoration of national harmony has removed the last obstacle to our onward march--opening up avenues of communications which will extend our lines, and eventually bring into close association the moulders of every State in the Union. The annual return of our sessions never fails to inspire emotions of pleasure, but, on the present occasion, that pleasure is enhanced, from the fact that the participants in trials and sacrifices of no ordinary character during the past year have come together where they can shake hands in mutual congratulations over banished troubles, and rejoice that manly independence, blended with a just appreciation of individual right...