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CONSTITUTION
Of the National Farmers' Alliance
and Industrial Union Adopted at
St. Louis.
declaration of purposes
jVHEREAS, The general con
"ivJ dition of our country imper
atively demands unity of ac
tion on the part of the laboring
classes, reformation in economy, and
the dissemination of principles best
calculated to encourage and foster
agricultural and mechanical pursuits,
encouraging the toiling masses
leading them in the road to prosper
ity, and providing a just and fair re
muneration for labor, a just ex
change for our commodities and the
best means of securing to the labor
ing classes the greatest amount of
good; we hold to the principle that
all monopolies are dangerous to the
best interests of our country, tend
ing to enslave a free people and sub
vert and finally overthrow tue great
principles pnrchased to the fathers
of American liDerty. We therefore
adopt the following as our declaia
tion of principles :
.1. To labor for the education of
the agricultural classes in the science
of economical government, in a
strictly non-partisan spirit, and to
bring about a more perfect union of
said classes.
2. That we demand equal rights
to all and special favors to none.
3 To indorse the motto "In things
essential, unity; aad in all things
charity."'
4. To develop a better state men
tally, morally, socially morally and
financially.
5. To constantly strive to secure
entire harmony and good will to all
mankind and brotherly love among
ourselves.
G. To suppress personal, local sec
tional and national prejudices; all un
nealthy rivalry and all unselfish am
bition. 7. The brightest jewels which it
garners are the tears of the widows
and orphans, and its imperative com
mands are to yisit the homes where
lacera ed hearts are bleeding; to as
suage the suffering of a brother or
sister; bury the dead, care for the
widows and educate the orphans; to
exercise charity toward offenders; to
construe words and deeds in their
most favorable light, granting hon
esty of purpose and good intentions
to others, and to protect the princi
ples of the Farmers' Alliance and Id
dustrial Union until death. Its
laws are reason and equity, its cardi
nal doctrines inspire purity of
thought and life, it3 intention is,
"On earth, peace, and good will to
man."
ARTICLE I.
Section 1. This organization shall
be known as the National Farmeas
Alliance and Industrial Union.
Sec. 2 This organization possesses
and shall exercise such powers as are
delegated to it by chater from the
Government of the United States,
aud such further powers as are here
in expressed.
ARTICLE II.
DIVISION of powers.
Sec. 1. The powers of this organ
ization shall be divided into three
branches, to wit : A legislative, an
executive and a judicial department.
Sec. 2. The legislative depart
ment shall be supreme in authority,
and its sessions shall be known as
Supreme Council of the order.
Sec. 3. The executive and judi
cial departments shall be of equal
power and authority, and subordi
nate only to the legislative
ARTICLE III.
MEETING?.
Sec. 1. The regular annual meet
ing of the Supreme Council shall be
the first Tuesday of December of
each year, and at such place as may
be determined by majority vote of
the body.
ARTICLE IV.
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of
the Supreme Council to make laws,
rules and regulations governing its
meetings and usages.
Sec. 2. The Supreme Council
shall be composed of the officers of
the organization and delegates from
the various State organizations elect
ed by the States upon such basis of
representation as the Supreme Coun.
oil may prescribe. It shall be the
duty of the Supreme Council to
adopt rules governing such repre
sentation: Provided, That the del
egates to theSupremeCouncil shall be
not less than twenty-one years of age;
and the basis of representation shall
not allow more than two delegates
from each State and one additional
delegate for each 10,000 active mem
bers or majority fraction thereof.
Active members under this section
are such members only as have paid
the regular yearly dues of five cents
each.
Sec. 3. The Supreme Council
shall elect at each regular annual
session the following officers, who
shall hold office until their succes
sors are elected and qualified : A
president, a vice-president,a lecturer,
a secretary and a treasurer.
Sec 4. The president shall be
presiding officer of the Supreme
Council and the official head of the
executive department.
Sec. 5. The Supreme Council shall
provide laws and rules prescribing
the powers, duties and methods of
the officers, and may limit the term
of office, fix salaries, etc.
ARTICLE V.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Sec. 1. The president shall be
the chief executive officer; be shall
have power to direct and instruct all
executive work in this department
subject to the laws and regulations
made by the Supreme Council.
Sec. 2. The president shall have
authority to interpret and construe
the meaning of the laws of the order
by official rulings, and such rulings
shall have the force and effect of laws
and be promptly presented to the
Judiciary Department for consider
ation, and if the Judiciary approve
the ruling it shall then be the final
construction of the law;, but should
the Judiciary refuse to concur in a
ruling, then and in that case such
ruling shall be held in abeyance until
the next meeting of the Supreme
Council, which shall decide the mat
ter. Sec. 3. The president shall be
the custodian of the secret work, and
shall provide for its exemplification
and dissemination. He shall be au
thorized to issue special dispensa
tions and held responsible for the
same, all of which shall be matters of
record.
ARTICLE VI.
JUDICIARY.
Sec. 1. The Judiciary Departs
ment shall be composed of three
judge?, one of whom shall after the
first year be elected annually by the
Supreme Couucil. Three judges
shall be elected the first year, one of
whom shall be for a term of one
year, one for two aud one for three.
Sec. 2. The regular term of ofs
fice for the judges of the Judiciary
Department shall be three years.
Sec. 3. No person shall be eligi
ble to office as judge in the Judiciary
Department who i3 under 30 years of
age.
Sec. 4 The senoir judge shall be
called the chairman, and shall be the
presiding offii-er of the court.
Sec. 5. Tbe Judiciary shall have
authority to act upon the rulings of
the president; to try and decide
grievances and appeals affeeting the
officers or members of the Supreme
Council; to try appeals from the
State bodies.
Sec. 6. The decisions and findings
of the Supreme Judiciary shall be a
matter of record, and shall be pre
served in the archieves of the order,
a careful report of which shall be
made to the legular annual session
of the Supreme Councii.
Sec. 7. For the purpose of carry
ing out the above provisions and
rendering the working of the Judi
ciary Department affective, the Su
preme Council shall provide rules
and regulations.
ARTICLE VII.
Sec. 1. The Supreme Council
shall fix such salaries for officers as
may be a fair remnneiation for ser
vices required, and for such expen
ditures of the various departments as
may be consistent with strict econ
omy. Sec. 2. A per capita tax of five
cents shall b6 paid for each male
member into the national treasury by
each State organization on or before
thelst of dayNovember of each year.
Sec. 3. The Supreme Council
shall at each session fix the mileage
and per diem to be paid the actual
delegates to the body, subject to a
limitation of not over three cents per
mile each way by the nearest and
most direct traveled route, and not
over three dollars per day for such
days as are spent in actual attend
ance at the session.
ARTICLE VIII.
Sec. 1. No person shall be admit
ted as a member of this order ex
cept a white person, over sixteen
years of age, who is a believer in the
existence of a Supreme Being, and
has resided in the State more than
six months; and is, either : First, a
farmer, or farm laborer; second, a
mechanic, a country preacher, a
country school teacher, or a country
doctor; third, an editor of a strictly
agricultural paper.
Provided, That each State or Ter
riroty shall have the right to pre
scribe the eligibility of applicants for
membership in reference to color
within the limits of the same. Pro
vided further, That none but white
men Bhall be elected as delegates to
the Supreme Council.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of
the Supreme Council to enact a uni
form eligibility clause for the various
State constitutions, also to enact
laws defining the eligibility of per
sons of mixed or unusual occupations
or residence, subject to all the limi
tations of thij article.
ARTICLE IX.
STATE BODIES.
Sec. 1. A State organization may
be chartered by the president in any
State having as many as seven coun
ty organizations, provided that any
State containing less than seven
counties may be chartered when one
third of its territory is organized.
Sec. 2. It shail be the duty of the
president to issue a charter to any
State organization qualified under
Section 1 of this article, when
they shall file evidence that they
have, first, adopted a constitution
that does not conflct with this con
stitution; second, that they adopt the
secret work and acknowledge the
supremacy of the National Farmers'
Alliance and Industrial Union.
ARTICLE X.
RESERVATION OF POWERS.
Sec. 1. All rights and powers not
herein expressly delegated are re
served to the State organizations
severally.
ARTICLE XL
AMENDMENTS.
Sec. 1. This constitution cannot
be altered or amended, except upon
a written resolution clearly setting
forth the changes or additions to be
made, which must be read in open
session on at least two separate days
and be adopted by two-thirds majority.
THOUGHTS FOR THE MONTH.
Southern Farm.
;HE WORK of the past year
may be regarded aa an experi
ment, or rather as a series of
experiments. The factors that have
entered into these experiments are,
on the one side climatic influences,
on the other, the cropping of the
land in previous years ; it3 prepara
tion, manuring, seed planted and cul
tivation. To profit from these ex
periments, each of these factors
should be carefully studied and
weighed independeutly, and in their
mutual combinations and relations.
First, the history of the land. Let
us assume for purposes of discussion
that it is old land, cleared many
years ago, and cultivated for a long
series of years. This i3 the condi
tion of most of the land in the cot
ton States. Its original stock of
ferti ity (available plant fcod) and of
humus, has been depleted, partly
being carried off in the crops taken
from the land, partly by the washing
away of the soil and partly through
the increased action of the atmos
phere, stimulated as it has been by in
cesdant work of the plow. Such
condition was not favorable to heavy
production. Plants must have food.
A soil without humus is liable to
bake, to run together, to hard, and
can neither absorb nor re tain mois
ture in any large degree. Without
moisture, plants cannot grow, no
matter now well they are fed. If
you have made good crops on sush
land the past year, give the credit tc
the unusual rainfall and the absence
of destructive droughts. The rain has
not only supplied moisture itself a
needed thing but has kept the
ground soft so that the roots of
plants could more easily ramify
through it and go further in search
of food. It has thus indirectly in
creased the supply of food. Give
full credit, therefore, for the year's
success, to its favorable climatic
conditions, to the abundant rainfall
and the absence of intense heat.
But bear in mind that you cannot
count on always haveing such favor
able conditions, and go dilligently to
work to be independent of them, in
a measure at least. The present
year may be unlike the past ;
drought and excessive heat may pre
vail. How may you provide against
them.
First, in a general way by proper
rotation of crops and by resting the
land. Where one has an abundance
of cleared land (and this is generally
the case) it would be well to rest
one-third of it very year. Give it
absolute rest, take nothing from it
neither crop it nor graze it. By
concentrating labor and manure on
two thirds of the land, more clear
piofit would be made under this
soil-improving system, than on the
whole land under the prevailing sys
tem of giving it no rest, whatever
from the plow. But aside from rest
ing the land, much may be done on
the line under discussion, by a prop
er rotation of crops on the part cul
tivated. A simple and most excel
lent rotation on a cotton farm is,
cotton one year and small grain the
next. This gives a money crop and
a feed crop. It gives a humus des
stoying and a humus-restoring crop.
It gives a crop that calls for phos
phates one year, and one that calls
for nitrogen the next. It gives a
deep rooted crop one year, a shallow
rooted crop the next. It gives a
fouling crop one year but a cleans
ing one the next. The two crops
fit into each other most admirably.
Grain grows well after cotton, and
cotton grows well after grain.
Grain can be -manured with cotton
seed ovly. Under such rotation cot
ton will need phosphate only. Bed
ding and clean culture of cotton
favor the wasting away of the soil ;
small grain comes in as a leveler of
the surface and counteracts the
washing of raiu. No two crops can
be conceived to dovetail into each
other more nicely. On oldest and
poorest land, the grain should be
followed by peas the same year and
rye sown in peas at their last plow
ing. The peas give a nitrogen pro
curing crop (a substance in which
old lands are very deficient), and the
rye turned under in prepaiing for
cotton, increases the supply of hu
mus. Thus we have cotton followed
by small grain (principally oats),
grain followed by peas, followed by
rye, and rye, turned under in spring,
followed by cotton. Such proceed
ure would fill the soil with humus,
and keep it filled ; would supply it
with available plant food, and would
keep it supplied ; would keep it
from getting hard, and from getting
excessively dry ; would make it both
absorptive and retentive of moisture.
In the second place, the evil spok
en of may be guarded against by
present and specific preparation
Deep and thorough breaking and
pulverizing of the soil enables it to
absorb and to retain an increased
quantity of water. On a hard road
bed nearly all the rain that falls up
on it, runs off ; very little is absorb
ed. On a freshly plowed field adja
ent, quite a heavy shower may fall
without any running off, and the
deeper the field is broken the great
er the quantity that will be absorbed.
After a rain, a field which has been
plowed dries off more slowly than
one not plowed for months before.
These are all familiar facts ; now for
their application. In late winter and
early spring we usually have abund
ant rains. If the soil has then been
recently broken it will be in condi
tion to absorb a great deal of water.
The water absorbed by the first
eight or ten inches of soil will slowly
pass down lower and make room for
the absorption of more at the next
rain. Thus the earth, to consider
able depth, becomes quite saturated
with water. A large store of it will
thus be laid up for future use, pro
vided its escape can be prevented
This then is the next point to be
guarded. This stored up water
must not be allowed to evaporate
from the surface. The only practi
cable and cheap method of prevent
ing it, is by frequfent, repeated, shal
low stirring of the surface with a
harrow. No crust should be allowed
to form at the surface after the win
ter freezes cease. The harrow
should be kept going until the crops
are up, and in some cases even later
than that; and after the harrow is
no longer admissable, wide cutting
scrapes or cultivators should contin
ue the good work all through the
growing season. Filling the soil
with humus, deep-breaking and surface-stirring
afterwards, are the
most efficient agencies in circum
venting drought and heat.
COUNTRY ROADS.
Wilmington Star.
SHE IMPROVEMENT of coun
ty roads is a subject that seems
to be attracting attention in a
number of States at this time. In
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio
considerable interest is being mani
fested in it. In Ohio the Commis
sioners of Mabony county have re
solved to macadamize all the roads
in the county. It is estimated that
the loss latt year to the farmers of
that county, who were unable to
market their products on account of
bad roads, amounted to 100,000.
This is an important subject and
does not receive the attention wh.ch
it should in any State, and yet there
is no State in the Union in which
the farmers do not suffer loss be
yond calculation from this cause,
and not only the farmer but the
business men of towns and cities, to
which the roads are tributary. Good
roads make marketing crops easy
and cheap, increase production, add
to the value of real estate, increasf
the business of the towns and cities,
enhance the value of real estate in
these, and increase the freightage of
railroads tributary to them. Thus
not only one, but many interests are
promoted by good county roads, and
many suffer by bad roads. Every
dollar judiciously invested in im
proving them will come back tenfold
in time.
SOURCE OF POCKET MONET.
Farm and Scotish Chief.
i4ARMERS in many parts of the
ln West are devoting more at
tention to poultry and the
profits from this source, and in many
cases, keep their homes supplied
with numerous useful articles. The
poultry yard is certainly worthy of
attention from ail farmers. Poultry
raising is profitable, if it is sensibly
and methodically pursued. Jt is a
branch of farming which requires
but little hard work and space,
while it carries with it much enjoy-
meot. I know of nothing equally
profitable which can take its place.
In running a farm, either large or
small, to leave out poultry would
seem, to me, to omit one of its best
features, and, also, cut off a steady
supply of ready money for house,
hold purposes which would soon be
missed.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
l FARMER is said to have
cleared his stable of fleas by
25 the use of sticky fly paper.
He puts a piece on the floor and it
gets black with the insects. It is
then removed and another laid down.
Brahma fowls minus head and
tails shrink in weight by dressing
from ten to sixteen per cent.; pre
pared for cooking, twenty four to
thirty one per cent. Turkeys dress
ed for market shrink twelve per cent.
Generally there is the least los3 on
the largest birds.
Buckwheat middlings have been
analyzed by the Connecticut Expe
rimental Station and found to be one
of the cheapest and richest feeds in
the market. It is especially effec
tive in the production of milk of
high quality. When costing $21 a
ton it wa3 found by the station
"valuation" to be worth 24.95.
betting nens may be broken up
by tying a long red flannel rag two
inches wide tightlv around the leg.
The effect is magical. At the sight
of the trailing flannel she will not
sit down, and at last is glad to go to
roost with the others.
Just now and for a few years past
a good brood sow is and has been
the most profitable breeding animal
on the farm. The price of her pro
duct never goes so low as to make
her a losing factor in farm economy
if properly cared for.
Scarcely any two cows are exactly
alike in disposition an 1 in the char
acter and nature of their teats and
udder, and the good milker will
study to know his cow in order that
he may know how to treat her.
If the ear corn that is fed to the
young hog3 on pasture is of the
more solid sorts it will pay to soak
jt twelve hours before feeding ; when
fed dry it makes their teeth sore,
and they only eat as prompted by
pressing hunger.
It is the whiffle trees rather than
the plow that do the mischief in
plowing among fruit trees. The
danger may be obviated by passing
the ends of the traces over the ends
of the wbiffletree and fastening to
the back.
If the choice can be made, always
select a light sandy soil for the loca
tion of the poultry house. A clayey
soil is nearly always damp, and for
this reason should be avoided when
possible.
The best specimens of tomatoes
and other vegetables should be
saved for seed. Improvement goes
forward by selection, natural or oth
erwise, and the rule is that like pros
duces like.
A common mistake in applying in
secticides is often made in not re
peating in a week or ten days to de
stroy the young that may have
hatched out after the first applica
tion. Scalded sweet milk and cooked
rice will stop diarrhoea in chickens.
Avoid giving sloppy food when in
this condition.
Better and sweeter pork may be
obtained by feeding plenty of sweet
apples than by any other process.
A cross may ba better than a full
blood for feeding, but never for
breeding.
To find the amount of hay in mow
allow 512 cubic feet for a ton.
When the crop is marketed is the
time to count the profits.
It is difficult to give cabbage too
much cultivation.
Wood ashes makes a good fertilizer.
MAKING HOGS PAY.
- Coleman's Rnral World.
OJ.EARS ago we used to consider
it necessary to allow a pig or
hog to grow before fattening
It of course required time to grow
hence hogs were from twe to
three years in making
this growth. I remember on one
occasion I wanted to purchase some
hogs to fatten, and went to a farmer
that I knew had a number to sell.
He showed me two lots, one of which
was somewhat larger than the other, i
but in pricing them he offered the
larger ones at a less price because he i
said they did not have the age and
were not ready to feed. The others
were considerably older and al
though small were worth the most.
But I find a great change in this ress
pect, until now a hog on an average
must be ready for the market within
a year after farrowing at least.
Taking the last five years and I j
have only found one plan of making
a profit from hogs. I couple my
sows so as to have the pigs come in
February I prefer this to March be
cause it is usually the best month,
while they have a much longer time
to grow in. The first two months we
must expect to feed the pigs through
the sow, this can be done earlier as
well as later. Provide a good warm
pen for the sows and feed 'liberally
upon slop and mill feed, so as to
secure a good start
grow. Usually by the time they
learn to eat well the pasture
will be ready to furnish a considera
ble amount of green feed, and with
rye and clover or a patch of oats
sown early and a light feed of bran
slops a steady growth can be kept up.
Make them grow as fast as possible
and get them ready for the market
early.
There are essential points in de
riving the best profit from hogs.
With a good breed by tLis plan of
management, I can have my pigs
ready for the market at least by No
vember, and often earner the time
depending upon the market During
the last five years prices have been
yery low iLii es, but by this plan I
have been able to derive a profit
from hogs. I am thoroughly satis
fied upon three points of f irm man
afirement of hosra. One of them ia, it
does not pay to keep scrub stock.
If you are not able to secure a full
start of thoroughbred hogs you can
at least secure the services of a good
blooded male and mate him with
your sows. The slow growing, late
maturing srub stock could not, in
in the last five years, have always
been profitable.
ne second is to nave pigs come
early in the spring and then push
them. Feed so as to get them ready
for the market in the shortest time
possible, make grow steadily every
day from the time they are farrowed
until they are marketed.
The third item is to butcher and
salt down a good quantity of bacon
or pork. I have always been able to
sell every pound I could spare, at
good price, and it is, l rind, a very
easy matter in the fall to sell out too
closely, and be obliged to buy again,
while, by making sure of a full sup
ply, at any time you have a surplus
it can readily be sold, while if you
are obliged to purchase you must
pay a good price.
As the average farm is arranged, it
does not pay to winter over many
pigs, liet good stocK; nave eany
pigs: push them from tie start by
feedins well. Fatten in the fall be
fore cold weather sets in, and be
sure to keep a good supply for your
own use, and keeping hogs on the
farm and can be made as profitable,
on an average, as any other class of
stock.
THE NEW DISCOVERY.
You have heard your friends and
neighbors talking about it. You
may yourself be one of the many
who know from personal experience
just how good a thing it is. If you
have ever tried it, you are one of its
staunch friends, because the wonder
ful thing about it i. that when once
given a trial, Dr. King's New Dis
covery ever after holds a place in the
house. If you have never used it
and should be afflicted with a cough,
cold or any Throat, Lung or Chest
trouble, secure a bottle at once and
give it a lair triaL It is guaranteed
everr time, or money refunded.
Trial bottles free at T. R. Abernethy
& Co's Drugstore.
Humors run riot in the blood at
this season. Hood's Sarsaparilla ex
pels every impurity and vitalizes and
enriches the blood.
The way to have cheap goods is
to make them at the least expense.
TOBACCO A SOURCE OF.
WEALT .
OLDSMITH B. WEST in
iliE) writing to the Baltimore
Manufacturers' Record, says :
Should the stranger stop at Green
ville, Jonesborough, Johnson. City or
any such places,hewill at once begin
to wonder what can give these moun
tain communities the air of thrift
and prosperity that appears palpa
bly on every side. It cannot be en
tirely referred to mineral interests of
the district, for the reason that those
interests are yet in their swaddling
clothes I did not understand the
puzzle myself until upon inquiry I
discovered that the good genius of
the region is tobacco. Within the
past five years it has been demon
strated that the limestone soils of
the valleys and hillsides are eminent
ly fitted for the production of the
finest grades of bright golden, silkly
leafed tobacco ever grown in Ameris
c&. Now everybody is at it. I
came across one farmer who had just
received eight hundred dollars for, I
think, sis tierces of the pleasant leaf
grown on not over two acres of
mountain land. Farm lands worth
from 5 to 10 per acre three years
ago I am told now commands from
$30 to 50 and are eagerly snapped
up at that, because in desirable lo
cations the value of an acre is more
than covered by a single crop. The
really golden product sell3 for from
1.10 to 1.25 per pound, and the
country is full of buyers for North-.
era, Eastern and Southern houses,
many of which have large
wareehouses a t Greenville
and other points. This compara
tively new crop is bringing money,
enterprise and comfort into the
neighborhood. It is building banks
and establishing mercantile con
cerns for traffic in a higher grade of
merchandise than was formerly de
manded by the inhabitants. It is
resurrecting towns like Greenville,
painting houses, mending fences and
increasing the average consumption
of new collars and coats. It is en
riching the district in such a manner
as that the people thereof will have
means wherewith to take advantage
of the impending development of
mining and manufacturing
industry to their own
advantage in many ways. Verily,
among the blessed things of this life;
productive of enterprise and profit
able agriculture, wealth compelling
slightly narcotic, gently seductive,
germ destrying, mildly tonic and
laxative; the rich man's luxury and
the poor man's solace Tobacco, with
a big T, is the one for our money.
NUTS WORTH CRACKING.
F THE cotton crop of 18S9 i
as large as that of 1888, 49,
000.000 yards of bagging will
be required to wrap it.
If the cotton is wrapped in jute
4,900,000 will pass out of the plan
ters hands.
If the cotton is wrapped in cotton
bagging 4,900,000 will remain in
side the lines of the cotton states to
be added to the circulating medium.
The making of 40,000,000 yards of
cotton bagging will consume 100,
000 bales of cotton which decreases
the number for market and enchanc -es
the value of the remainder one
fourth per pound, making the gain
to the planters 8,565,000.
The J. R. Adams factory can put
a bale of cotton into its spinning
room for 6.77 less than it can be
laid down in Lowell, Mass.
If the cotton was Bpun in the
South 47,390,000 would be saved in
the freight charge, etc
A better day is coming, for in
1887 the product of the Southern
cotton mills was 48,000,000 against
1,000,000 in 1880.
It is a fact worthy of strong em
phasis that cotton mills are increas
ing more rapidly in the South than
anywhere else.
Common sense will, at no distant
day, compel the spinning of raw ma
terial where it can be done the
cheapest.
The cotton of 1889 if sold as here
tofore, will give the planters 300,
000,000 ; if wholly manufactured in
the South the great sum of $1,000,
000,000. The difference in the price of the
raw material and that of the manun
factured article is 700,000,000 in
favor of the South.
No other country in the world
could have existed as long as the
South has under such system of
the day be hastened when the
farmers of these United States -will
receiye just profit for their products.
J. R. McLendon, in Old Homestead.