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nni 1 THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY, RALEIGH, N. O., JULY 5, 1892. No. 21 PROGRESS!? FARMER -ONALFARMERS' ALLI rHS Vxr AND INDUSTRIAL AHV" " UNION. tt T T m i rT a TTi i irm JrSta. Address, Washington, In C. m T TT TSirrfT ddress, 239 North Capitol W Washington, D. C. l"J t tt Willetts. Kansas. fturt-i EXECUTIVE BOARD. , W Macune, Washington, D a Wardall. Huron, South Da- Uota-. ... Palmetto. Tennosse J . iUl"w:i ' JUDICIARY. , i Cole, Michigan, p v Beck, Alabama. 5. D.' Davie, Kentucky. NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. H L. Loucks, Chairman frY Macune, Washington, D. C. fnui Pao, Brandon, Va. L P. Featherstone, Forest City, Ar kansas- -ixrvn'fo TpnnPssPA a-H CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLI- President Clarion Butler, Clinton, Y C. . . m T-i T A ,1, Vice-President t. ioug, uc- Seeretarj-Treasurer WT. S. Barnes, (AleizH, N. C. Lecturer J. S. Bell, Brasstown, N.C. !&Sd-C. C. Wright, Glass, N. C Chaplain Rev. E. Pope, Chalk 1 N C "Dwr-Keeper W. H. Tomlinson, ..'ayetteville, N. C. Assistant Door-Keeper EL E. king, qSeant-at-AnnaJ. S. Holt, Chalk ;vel, N. C. m State Business Agenx-- vv . lx. w ui ialeigh, N. C. Trustee Business Agency Fund W . v. Graham, Machpelah, Is. C. tlECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. 3 B xVlexander, Charlotte, N. C, hairman; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston, . C. ; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C. TATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. Elias Carr, A. Leazer, N. M. Cul oreth, M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. Connell. TATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. ; N. C. inglish, Trinity College: J. J. Young, Pdeua- H. A. Forney, Newton, N. C. N'orth Carolina Reform Press Association. ntffvr .7" T. Ramsey. President: tfarion Butler, Vice-President ; TP. 5. Harnes, Secretary, PAPERS. i-'rogressi ve Farmer, Caucasian, The Workingtnan's Helper, Raleigh, N. C. Clinton, N. C. Pinnacle, N, C. Salisbury, N. C. Farmers' Advocate. Country Life, Mercury, Tarboro, Is. i. Trinity College, N. C. Hickory, N. C. Whitakers, N. C. Goldsboro. N. C. Moncure, N. C Raleigh, X. C. turner, Agricultural Bee, Alliance Echo, Special Informer, Each of the above-named papers are requested to keep the list stariding on the first page and add others, provided they are duly elected. Any paper fail ing to advocate the Ocala platform will be dropped from the list promptly. Our people can now see tvhat papers are published in their interest. SALLY CARSON; Cr, a Baby on a Leaf of History. The following narrative of an histori cal nature may be interesting to some of the patriotic people of Raleigh, it having had its origin in the dear old Capitol sixty two yerrs ago; the chief actors being 'two of nature's noblemen loved and honored in tho Old North State, viz: Samuel P. Carson and William W. Stedman. These names have pretty nigh faded from the face of the earth, but they stand on the pages of history and linger in the mem ory of a few who ptill walk the shores of time. See Wheeler's H story of North Carolina The "baby" is the writer's mother, and it is to her and my grandmother that I am indebted for the narrative. My grandfather, Wm. Winship Sted man, was a great admirer ot Air. Car son, and I know of nothing that con tradicts the statement that the admira tion was mutual. The depth of the admiration can but be judged by what transpired The former placed himself under obligation to the latter to name a cert lin member of his family for him should fortune favor a boy. This was befcrj thediiy of prohibition law, when the glass and the 4 'toast" were con sidered a gentleman by requisites for compliments received. Which was the amount of the obligation of the obliga tion until October, IrSl. Legislature was in session and Mr. Carson and Mr. S. were both at Raleigh. The latter received a letter, or a message, I do not remember which one was about as fleet as the other both travelling in the saddle, but it carried the informa tion that the baby was a girl. I suspect this was a blow to the fond hopes of the heroic sire, for girl babies were not considered legacies in those days. Mr. Carson despaired, no doubt, to "make the beet of it," for his friend said: 44 Call her Sally Carson." Per haps his mother was named Sally and Sally Carson it was and is. But she eays to this day that she don't see why a girl can't be Sammyjas well as Sally. She always seemed to think that she was cheated out of her name proper. But if this, shcfaB not cheated out of her inheritance. For the name she bears her babyship received a set of solid table silver, which has served two generations, and is going the rounds of the third. As her children grew to the estate of manhood and wo manhood and left her one by one, she gave to each a piece of this old silver as an heirloom, or a talisman, as it were. This writer's share was a pair of sugar tongs, which impart to me from time to time as I brush the canker of age from their surface, the story I have told, and I enter into the precious old time of thfo Democratic sons of tho Old North State, and as I look up at the painting on my best mantel shelf I can fancy the melancholy cloud that shadowed the handsome brow of my grandfather's early manhood when he received that letter at Raleigh and read in it that the baby was a girl. But I will tell you what my grand mother said about it. Out of six chil dren this child was more pleasure to her than all tho others. To my own knowledge she was the only one who stood by her death bed side, and soothed the dying pillow. There were two other girls, but they had preceded her to the grave. William Winship, Jr., was also dead the eldest of the six. James Cooper, then cashier of the People's National Bank, Fayette ville, N. C. Sally Carson and Andrew Jackson named for "Old Hickory" survived her. But the latter died a few years ago. A. J. Stedman is a familiar name to many now living m North Carolina and irginia. He is possibly best remembered as editor of Stedman's Magazine, Sahm, N. C. He was also Colonel in the Confederate Army. Of his family I kcow nothing, except that his wife's name was "Susie." This information is gained from a beautiful hand-writing on the back of one of his magazines sent to my grand mother a great while ago from her 44 loving daughter, Susie Stedman." On anoth- r page is a poem, 44 Mary Wal ton," on the death of a child, presuma bly named for her whose maiden name was Walton. William Winship, Jr., was a pactic ing physician in Chatham county (I think) and died when this writer was quite young. He married a most ex cellent lady, I have heard, a Miss Olivia Gertrude Giftson, and they tell me when I made my de but on the scene of time, there was a consultation among the elders whether my name should be Olivia Gertrude, or Olivia Giftson, but resulted in neither. As a child of nine summers to nine teen, I used to sit at my grandmother's knees and write letters for her to these son3 when her eyes hr.d grown too dim, and received as compensation stories of their childhood days,. which was tho 44 Robinson Crusoe" of my outh, and the " House that Jack built " on top of it. I was delighted to hear them and she delighted to tell them. The benefit was mutual. There was only one dis agreeable thing about it she always cried so. Especially when she pointed to a piece of old red wood in the house upon which was cut with a jack knife, the letters, "A. J. Stedman." "That precious name," she would say, " was cut there the day before he left home." There was only one bright anecdote in the three little lives she told me about. and thi she had to tell every time a J letter was written. Because it always made her laugh, and this was the best part of it. 4 'In them days" she said "Children carried molasses to school to 4 sop ' at recess and a saucer h id to be put in the bucket to sop it in. My Winship, like his dear father, full of life, knocked a boy's elbow while he was sopping his molasses, and his saucer failing upon the floor, broke. When the teacher returned and took in school, the boy said : 44 School mas ter! Schoolmaster! William Winship Stedman made me brake my saucer." "William Winship Stedman, what have you been doing to this boy Jose phue?'' " Made him break his saucer, sir. " he says, and the children laughed so that the teacher had to turn them out. But this story was not finished until William Winship Stedman carried Josephus another saucer to sop molases in. For saucers were saucers in these days with the little back-woods Jose phus1 of that country. There is another incident of this long time ago in which there i centred as much pathos as there is humor in the above. My grandfather's body-servant was named Sampson, a young mulatto man of considerable value, to whom all the family were greatly attached. Mr. Stedman, a short time Tbefore his death, seeing a financial crisis ahead, decided to part with faithful Sampson as the most dispensable luxury. The "negro spcckulator" of that day was the negro terror. Perhaps I can best tell the story as my grandmother toll it to me. 44 Sampson's master," she said. 44 did not want him to know that he was go ing to sell him; he knew how sorrowful Sampson would be to hear it, and be ing a tender hearted man, he was very sorrowful himself; yet he did not know what else to do under the circumstan ces. So Sampson was told that he was going to Norfolk to help a neighbor to rive cattle to the slaughter pen; and the poor thing drove tho cattle to mar ket and fell unsuspecting into the " speckulator'a " claws. . My little Andrew Jackson was sick at the time, lying in the cradle near the open door, and I was sitting by him crying. Poor Sampson thought I was crying about the child, but I was not. I was crying about him. It was near sun down and he was soon to start, taking no clothing with him for a blind, and I knew he would not come back any more, and his wife watching by a little cradle in his own home. He came to the door just before he started and taking Andrew Jackson by the hand said: "Mietis, I wouldn't cry. Little Marster haint got much fever. He'll be well presently. Don't cry, Mistis; don't cry." Here my grandmother always broke down. Half century never erased that memory, and somewhere, somehow, in the realms of the great uncertain, yet certoin, I think exists still. Charlotte, Simpson's wife, lived in sight of the smoke of the Stedman homestead, and her child, Ellen, grew up side by side with Sally Carson, both eating out of the same plate and sharing the same fare when together. When they set tled in their own homes in the married estate, they settled in the same neigh borhood, and in the same neighborhood they are living to day the best of friends, mothers of grown-up children and grandchildren. Ellen is 4 4 Aunt Ellen" to us children She sometimes comes to see me, and I am always glad to see her. I seem to live over again the halcyon days spent at my dear grand mother's knees listening to her full joys of motherhood (when her children were small) and her bitter woes of widowhood. The sweet simplicity of the former, to my little mind, com pensated for the impositions ana injus tices practiced upon the latter. Per haps I understood them better. As a tribute to the memory of my grand father, I will add that my grandmother claimed he was 4 4 never himself again" after the sale of Simpson. A tender parent and a mot affectionate hus band, it is possible that the broken ties of this faithful bondman decoyed from home without the 44 sweet old word good-bye," had a tendency to tamper with his nervous system. He called Sampson in delirium a short while be fore ne died, and Sampson was a house hold shadow as long as the household remained, and in my strange imagina tion, in that family circle of five graves sequestered m an half-forgotten spot, where a noted dogwood tree casts its white flowers in spring, and its red leaves in autumn, Sampson is the dis course. Thi3 narrative, in its historical rela tions, would be incomplete did I not mention trias a company under the leadership of Wm. W. Stedman was mustered and marched to the South ampton insurrection in 1831. He was one of the braver who helped to hang Nat. Turner " up the green apple tree," and I expect put the first snot in the miserable image. Bubbling upon the ears of solitude, a mysterious fountain, known abroad as 44 the. White Oak Sprim? " where ,1 plaj ed when a child, and washed my dirty hands and bare feet, and looked at my little sun burnt f tee as in a mir ror, Mr. Stedman's gamo stock fought in political campaigns, and decided by blood and feathers the majority of the Domocrats over the Whigs. Demo cratic to the backbone I and all his des cendants that I know of. This old and familiar haunt, the White Oak Spring, has seen its best day s, and with the ex ception of an occasional wanderer, is visited only by cattle seeking to slack their thirst and catch a nod. By some strange providence at the death of my grandfather, the boys were taken into the house of his father, who survived him, in Cumberland Co., N. C, stopping in the streets of Raleigh to feed and rest their team. Here they received first class educations and were 44 made men of," while the widowed mother and helpless girls were left at what had beenhome, to fteht the battle of life alone. But as 44 the mill of the gods grind slow," they also grind sure. Thu3 Sally Carson's childhood waa uneventful, except in its hardships peculiar to certain children upon whom the drudgery of the fefcnily falls. She spaded up the garden, gathered the apples and mastered all the unmastered tasks fitted to her shoulders, winning the titlo of 44 man and boy." The most remarkable event being the early im pression she made upon my father and the number of years he waited for her to out-grow short dresseas. She en joyed the reputation of being the pret tiest girl in the neighborhood and the " Judge's sweetheart," and has enjoyed a home of her own, and a modest sur plus, ever since the old ChristmasfEre she became his bride, and sit by a huge log fire in an old house I love to think about, in whose deserted walla I heard the first echo of my voice, yelling for the cows 44 to come home." At 62 Sally Carson is active and happy and the last of her f amily except one J. O. Stedman, Fayetteville, N. C. Like other women, she enjoys a compliment, which is sometimes at the expense of the writer. I think she also possesses the Sted man-poetic vein, though the never made any display of it except in the site of her well, which is under a tree that she and her first child's nurse planted 43 years ago. In this gigantic shade, that her absent children sometimes dream about, swings to and fro 44 the old oaken bucket," the iron-bound bucket, and the moss grown bucket. She points it out to strangers and tells the story I have told. She has told it for a quarter of a century, but it has never grown old. She never tells it to the same one twice. She has an accurate mamory. She has been the mother of eight chd dren, five of whom are living and nine grandchildren. She was left a widow May Slst, 1869, and with the old energy of the young Sally Carson, the strova heroicly for her six fatherless boys and girls, three of each. Modesty will not allow me to iell the recompense of her long years or self denial and sacrifices. My grandmother used to wish in her days of want that 4 4 there were more Sally Carsons." I often gee the need of them. Last but by no means least, J she is a consecrated Christian, seeing the hand of God in everything, and everywhere, recommending Him above all things else, to her children. Mrs. W. H Gray. Suffolk, Va., April 27, 1892, TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. We the members of Rock Spring Sub-Alliance, assembled, after hearing the sad and heartrending news of the death of Col. L. L. Polk, he being a native of our C3unty, whom we didn't only esteem as a srreat leader in the re form movement but as a kind. Chris tian-hearted gentleman. Resolved, That we bow in humble submission to the Divine Providence of the Supreme Being. 2. That we render our heart-felt eim pathy to his svidow and children who j a,re left to mourn the loss of so great a lneiiu, reeling in u ineir loss is nis eternal gain. 3. That we recommend to the brother hood of the Farmers' Alliance and Co operative Union to unite and raise a suitable monument to his memory 4. That a copy of these resolutions bo sent to The Progressive Farmer for publication. A. Lowry, E B. Watson, A. D. Horner, Committee. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. Taken from the minutes of Wood land Alliance, held June 17th, 1892. Whereas, The Farmers' Alliance was visited June 11th by the impartial angel of death who plucked from its ranks and our midst lour beloved and highly esteemed brother, Col. L. L. Polk President of the N. F. A and I. U. of America; therefore be it Resolved, That we bow submissively to the will of Him who is too wise to err, too good to be unkind and whose mercies endureth forgyer 2. That we renev our pledge to stand by and support the principles f or which he contended until death. 3. That the Alliance has lost one of its members whose heart lalways beat in loving loyalty to the Alliance cau?e, and whose hands were ever ready to bear aloft in exulting triumph its glorious banner. 4 That the common people have lott ftn efficient, earnest and consecrated teacher, whose genial smiles and gentle words will be sorely missed. 5. That our d epest sympathy be ex tended to the bereaved family and rel atives, and that a codv of these resolu and a copy be sent to The Progressive Farmxr, Agricultural Bee, Goldsboro Headlight and GoldsbDro Argus for publication. IS RELIGION A FAILURE? IS THE ALLIANCE THE THISTLE? Bogue, N. C, Mr. Editor: As the public press is the proper tripod to discuss all ques tions relating to the common good of a common people. It seems the Demo cratic press wishes to charge the Alli ance organization as the only thistle a stumbling block to America's future greatness. Where is the Prohibition parky, are they not organized too? It was the thistle that served Scotland at Aberdeen when the Deans had over run the rural districts, in the year 1010, to scan tho walls in Jthe stillness of the night; but when they struck the bottom of the soft moits in their bare foet, the thistles, their cries were so voluminous and loud that the Scot ianders were in arms at once and Scotland was saved, hence from that time the thistle has been the national emblem of Scotland. But this being a more progressive age the thistle that retards now is over greed. It was greed that has centralized all govern ments. In the face of Greece, Rome and Babylon, what the cause? Will America fall? Should such a catas trophe happen, let it have no history. As Mr. We Deter says, let its fate be that of the lost books which no hun an eye shall ever read, or the missing Ploiade of no man can ever kno w more than that is lost and lest forever. Where does a man's religion lie now? Touch his pocket book and you cut his heart-string. Hiafcory repeats that there was not a single case of larceny nor bastardy in all China until England ran the block ade and introduced the opium trade. After that you could photograph their spots anywnere. It is the over-avaricious that has attempted to lead in all countries. This is the most serious de cade for the world to rise or ruin. America has made the great civil progress of all governments, the grandest that ever adorned the skill of man. An exalted power, the fear of kings and the drea of nations. To day brings the sad new3 of the death of Col. Polk. He is no more, though every hill, dale and clime will be rendolent of his name for all ages. There is a cause for this great unrest and the people are going to find the cause. We should take time and go slow, for it is the wisdom of sage, philosophers and philanthropists. We are becoming disgusted with orthodox religion. We favor Christian princi ples with the type of the Christian character. We stand unique in the world's history to-day. The hearts of this nation jbea.t as they never beat be fore for a Christian gorernment. To day every nation enjoy its 44 double wings" extended for Cnristian princi plee that St Paul has so beautifully described that God has been given to woman for her religious liberty, then let not the god of mammon clip her wings. R. W. Humphrey. POLITICAL PLATFORMS. A Series of Interesting Documents. Milestones in the Development oj Politi cal Parties Since the Organiza tion of the Government. 1852. DEMOCRATIC, BALTIMORE, JUNE iST. Resolutions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the p atform of 1848 were re affirmed to which were added the following: Resolved 8. That it U the duty of every branch of the government to en force and practice the mcst rigid econ omy in conducting public affairs, and that no more revenue ought to be raised than is required to defray the necessary expenses of the government, and for the gradual -ut certain extinction of the public debt. 9. That Coagres3 has no power to charter a national bank ; that we be lieve such an institution one of deadly hostility to the best interests of the country, dangerous to our republican institutions and the liberties of the people, and calculated to place the business of the country within the con trol of a concentrated money power ; and that above the laws and the will of the people; and that the results of Democratic legislation, in this and all other financial measures, upon which issues have been made between the two political parties of the country, have demonstrated to candid men of all parties, their soundness, safety, and utility, in all business pursuits. 10. That the separation of the moneys of the government from banking insti tutions, is indeepensable for the safety of the government and the rights of the people, 11. That the liberal principles em bodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the Constitution, which makes ours the land of liberty and the asylum for the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the Demo cratic faith, and every attempt to abridge the privilege of becoming citi zens and the owners of the soil among us, ought to be resisted with the same spirit that swept the alien and sedition laws from our statute book. 12. That Congress has no power under the Conrtitution to interfere with, or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of every thing appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts of the Abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to in terfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculate to lead to the most alarming and dangero js consequences ; and that all such efforts have an inevi table tendency to diminish the happi ness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of cur political institutions. 13. That the foregoing proposition covers, and is intended to embrace, the whole subject of slavery agitation in Cong ess ; and therefore the Democratic party of the Union, standing on this national platform, will abide by, and adhere to, a faithful execution of the acts known as the Compromise meas ures settled by the last Congress, 44 the aat for reclaiming fugitives from ser vice or labor " included ; which act, be ing designed to carry out an express provision of the Constitution, cannot, with fidelity thereto, be repealed, nor so changed as to destroy cr impair its efficiency. 14. That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Con gress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question ; under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made. Here resolutions 13 and 14 of the platform of 1848 were inserted. 1852. PLATFORM, BALTIMORE, JUNE 16tH. The Whigs of the United States, in convention assembled, adhering to the great conservative principles by which they are controlled and governed, and now as ever relying on the intelligence of the American people, with an abid ing confidence in their capacity for self government and their devotion to the Constitution and the Union, do pro claim the following as the political sen timents and determination for the establishment and maintenance of which their national organization as a party was effected. First. The Government of the United States is of a limited character, and to it is confided the exercise of powers expressly granted by the Constitution, and such as may be necessary and proper for carry ing the granted powers into full execution, and that powers not granted or necessarily implied are reserved to the States respectively and to the people. Second. The State governments should be held secure to their reserved rights, and the General Government sustained in its constitutional powers, and that the Union should be revered and watched over as the palladium of our liberties. Third. That while struggling freedom everywhere enlists the warmest sym pathy of the Whig party, we still ad here to the doctrines of the father of this country, as announ ?ed in his fare well addrees, of keeping ourselves free from all entangling alliances with foreign countries, and of never quitting our own to stand upon foreign ground ; that our mission as a republic is not to propagate our opinions, or impose on other countries our form of govern ment, by artifice or force, but to teach by example, and show by our success, moderation and justice, the blessings of self government, and the advantages of free institutions. 1S52. FREE SOIL, PITTSBURG, AUGUST llTH. Having assembled in national con vention as the Democracy of the United States, united by a common resolve to maintain right against wrong, and freedom against slavery ; confiding in the intelligence, patriotism, and dis criminatiug justice of the American peopl e;puttiDgcur trust in God for he triumph of our cause, snd invoking His guidance in our endeavors to ad vance it, we now submit to the candid . judgment of all men, the following declaration of principles and measures: 1. That governments, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, are instituted among men to secure to all, those inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap piness, with which they are endowed by their Creator, and of which none: ' can be deprived by valid legislation, v except for crimo. 2. That the true mission of the Ameri can Democracy is t maintain the lib erties of the people, the sovereignty of the States and the perpetuity of the Union, by the impartial application to public affairs, without sectional dis criminations of the fundamental prin ciples of human rights, strict justice, and an economical administration. 3. That the Federal Government is one of limited powers, derived solely from the Constitution, and the grants of power therein ought to be strictly construed by all the uepartments and agents of the government, and it is in expedient and dangerous to exercise doubtful constitutional powers 4. That the Constitution of the United States, ordained to form a more per fect Union, to establish justice, and secure the blessings of liberty, ex pressly denies t the General Govern ment all power to deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of 1 iw ; and, therefore, the government, having no more power to make a slave than to make a king, and no more power to establish slavery than to estab ish a monarchy, should at once proceed to relieve itself from all responsibility of slavery wherever it possesses constitutional power to legis late for its extinction. 5. That to the persevering and im portant demands of the slave power for more slave States, new slave terri tories, and the nationalization of slavery, our distinct and finai answer is no more slave States, no more slave territory, no nationalized slavery, and no national legislation for the extra dition of slaves 6. That slavery is a sin against God, and a crime against man, which no human enactment cr usage can make right; and that Christianity, humanity and patriotism alike demand its abolition. 7. That the Fugitive Slave act of 1855 is repugnant to the Constitution, to the principles of common law, to the spirit Christianity, and to the sentiments of the civilized world ; we, therefore, deny its binding force on the American peo-. pie, and demand its immediate and total repeal. 8. That the doctrine that any human law is a finality, and not subject to modification and repeal, is not in ac cordance with the creed of the founders of our government, and is dangerous to the liberties of the people. 9. That tho acts of Congress, known as the Compromise measures of 1850, by making the admission of a sovereign State contingent upon the adoption of other measures demanded Dy the special interests of slavery; by their omission to guarantee freedom in the territories ; by their attempt to impose unconstitutional limitations on the powers of Congress and the people to admit new States; by their provisions for the assumption of five millions of the State debt of Texas, and for the payment of five millions more, and the cession of large territory to the same State under menace, as an inducement to the relinquishment of a groundless claim; and by their invasion of the sovereignty of the States and the liber ties of the people, through the enact ment of the unjust, oppressive, and unconstitutional fugitive slave law, are proved to be inconsistent with all the principles and maxims of true Democ racy, and wholly inadequate to the settlement of the questions of which they are claimed to be an adjustment. 10. That no permanent settlement of the slavery question can be looked for except in the practical recognition of the truth that slavery is sectional and freedom national ; by the total separa tion of the General Government from slavery, and tho exercise of its legiti mate and constitutional influence on the side of freedom ; and by leaving to the States the whole subject of slavery and the extradition of fugitives from service. 11. That all men have a natural right to a portion of the soil; and that as the use of the soil is indispensable to life, tho right of all men to the soil is as sacred as their right to life itself. 12. That the public lands of the United States belong to the people, and should not be sold to individuals nor granted to corporations, but should be held as a sacred trust for the benefit of the people, and should be granted ui limited quantities free of cost, to land less settlers. TO BE CONTINUED. If Congress has the right under the constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to be used by them selves,not tobe delegated individuals or corporations. Andrew Jackson. Now's the time. Time? Yes, time. Time for what? Time to send 40 cents and get The Progressive Farmer for the campaign. 4 iV y
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