The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-15

consequence of any covert attack made
against the organization from an op,
posing journalistic source. A sort
of attempt was made by an Atlanta,
Ca, paper not long since in this dlrec-
ton, but it soon knuckled under, n
abject submission, when it saw 1t was
kicking against the pricks. 1t would
indeed be a grand, gloomy and pecu'
liar undertaking for one of these hire
ling journals to tackle the National
Economist, if aver it realized that 1t
is to come in contact with a QUIZ saw,
it would then, and the fur would ny
worse than from a 10000 Kilkenny
tom-cst fight.
Let any one peruse the proceedings
of the St. Louis Convention from be-
ginning to end and get thoroughly
imbued with what that meeting, then
and there adopted and formulated,
and if he will not be struck with the
mental calibre exhibited throughout,
then he must be an ignoramus OF
the most driveling asinino quality.
Apart from the ability displayed,
where or when was there ever such
harmony in a gathering of like nature2
There were assembled for the purpose
of consolidation, under n name,
different branches of the order, with
different designas, representing
every section of the country; but,
putting aside sectional prejudices and
party differences, and actuated by a
simultaneous impulse, they dove tailed,
coalesced without the least friction
a brotherhood indeed I! Throughout
the whole of their deliberations, North,
South, East and West grasped hands
as though it had been a reunion Of
old friends rejoicing for the sake of
old Lang Syne. They met for one
common purpose-to deliberate upon
the best way to face and defeat a
common enemy-and sectional ami,
mosities, if any before existed, and
every other alien influence was elm
mated the least likely to dampen an
intercourse which subordinated every
consideration to that of fraternai con-
cord and unison of purpose.
Indeed, no gathering since the war
for the purpose of bridging over the
bloody chasm, squelching the gospel
of hate, and healing the bitterness of
sectional discord, which has from
time to time broken out with renewed
vigor, has resulted in such an invol-
untary mutual Cancellation as that
effected by the st. Louis National
Farmers Alliance Convention. 1t
seemed to wipe out, as if i'm
PEELED by sheer fraternal instinct
every vestige of state and
party personality, and thus demon
stated that no influence is comparable
to the order, cemented as it is by a
common grievance, in uniting all sec
tons tremendously and burying
whilom differences in the oblivion of
the past.
If the st. Louis Convention &C.
complished nothing else, the establish
ment of the peace and harmony
which, through its beneicent infu-
ence, now prevails throughout the
agricultural classes of the whole coun-
try, uniting them indissolubly under
one grand cause and mutually of in,
t~erests, is sufficient triumph in itself
to entitle the order to the best wishes
of all who love peace and amity.
What a commentary is such a result
upon the scenes occurring from time
to time at the seat of government,
where statesmen vie with each other
in an exhibition of sectional bitterness.
And compare it, too, with the har.
mony that characterized some late
religious conventions
No! no such meeting has taken
place on the continent since the wal
that has effected such good, in every
respect, as the ever o-be-memorable
convention that met in St. Louis or
the 5th of December last, and every
Alliance man.should be proud that in
such a gathering we're representa- yes
of the order Of which he is a member
UPTON B. GWYNN.