_The South and the Strikes._ All Serene in Dixie—A Slight Ripple in Texas—Speedy Restoration of Peaceful Relations—“Old Virginia Never Tires”—Southern Men Offer Services to Restore Order in Northern States—The Era of Sectional Harmony—Law and Order. 428 CHAPTER XXXII. _Minor Developments of the Strikes._ How a Strike was Averted on the Union Pacific Railroad—Concessions to the Men—A Settlement at Memphis Tennessee—Declaration of the Supreme Council of the Labor Union—Order of Melakhto—Rights and Privileges—Sympathizers with the Strikers—The Engineers’ Brotherhood at Pittsburgh—Views and Opinions. 466 INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. RELATIONS BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR. Condition of the Country—The Duty of Patriotic Citizens—The Mistakes of Capitalists—The Faults of the Workingmen—The Poor Man’s Hopes the Rich Man’s Protection—The Conditions of Social Order. Republican government in this country, has just been subjected to a strain greater than any which our system has been before required to sustain. It is true, that great armies were not organized to meet in the shock of battle as in the civil war between the North and South. Nor were powerful sections arrayed against each other. But the phases assumed by the recent conflicts are far more threatening to social organization and political stability, than was the terrible contest waged between sections from 1861 to 1865. In that collision, the North represented the idea of the organic unity of the several States of the Federal Government, the South the idea of State Sovereignty, but both represented the principles of social order, and contended for the reign of law. But we have witnessed an uprising of no mean magnitude, which represented nothing in common with the fundamental principles of Republican institutions. The history of the Great Strikes of 1877, affords materials for thought, a basis for the most profound reflections. The causes which produced the results, so startling to the friends of liberal institutions, have not ceased to operate, and as a consequence the records of the events connected with the inception, progress and culmination of the disorders, must prove to be an interesting study to all thinking minds. The very foundations of American society have been disturbed; the whole political structure has been made to sway to and fro, as if about to be overthrown.