The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-21

0rnLn0nG SnOulQ COnGrOI these great
agencies of power, rather than that
they should control the government.
They demand a just system of grad
uated tax on incomes. They demand
that an amendment to the Constitution
shall be submitted to the people, by
which United States Senators shall be
elected by a direct vote of the people.
They believe that no interest, or class,
or industry, should be taxed to buildup
any other interest, or class or industry.
They demand that all revenues shall
be limited to the necessary expenses of
an honestly and economically admin
istered government. From these great
questions they cannot and will not be
diverted. Even the protective tariff,
with all it's abominable iniquities, can
not supplant them. Force bills, "bloody
Shirts" the cry of "negro supremacy
in the South" and of "rebels" in the
North, will lose all the power of their
baleful charm in the presence of these
great, overshadowing questions.
The great mass of the industrial
classes, North and South, Democrats
and Republicans, without regard to
sectional or geographical lines, with
one purpose and with one heart
have locked their hands and shields in
a common cause.-the cause of a COM
mon country. The evils under which
they suffer, and which threaten the
destruction of the republic and it's in
situations, are national in their charac-
ter and cannot be corrected by sectional
remedies. Hence, recognizing but one
fag-the flag of our common country
-impelled by a common purpose, act
uated by a common motive. confronted
by a common danger, they have
solemnly resolved to turn their backs
upon the past and make one mighty
effort to rescue government and
institutions from impending peril.
They have wiped out, and forever, the
last trace of Mason and DixOn's line
across the Alliance territory. African
| slavery is gone, thank God, and in the
spirit of manly magnanimity and fra
ternity the Alliancemen of the blue"
and the Alliancemen of the gray"
say: Let the bitterness, animosities
and prejudices, born of it's existence,
perish with it and forever The
proud Saxon spirit, and courage, and
patriotism, which crowned the heroism
of the "blue and the gray" with indy
ing fame, are now summoned to break
the CALLING and degrading chains of
white slavery, the slavery of honest
labor and how fitting that they should
lead in this glorious struggle for God
and humanity.
Ye brave men of the North! who
stood by the stars and stripes with a
devotion and a courage that would
have added new luster to the splendor
of Rome's legions in her palmiest days
-ye brave men of the South! who
stood by the sinking stars of a doomed
cause while you bore in your manly
hearts a more fOrlOrn hope than that
which inspired the six hundred at
Balaklava-America's heroes! Did We
win glory in the dread conflict of arms?
Standing now under the Alliance
banner, on whose folds CLOVIS in radiant
beauty: con earth, peace, good will
to men," how grandly and resplend-
emily sublime that glory shall become
when crowned with your nobler
achievements as citizens in peace!
Grant and Lee, jackson and McPher-
son, Sherman and Johnston, Stewart
and Custer, with thousands of their
brave and devoted followers, have
crossed over the River and are bivOu-
acked under the shade of the trees,
where they will rest peacefully until
the archangel shall sound the final
reveille and summon them to the Grand
Review on the Eternal Plains. Letthe
living, and those who are to follow us,
remember only their virtue-their
superb manhood and heroism.
Inscribe it On imperishable tablet!
Embalm it in undying song! Let the
genius of pencil and chisel embellish it
with it's most Respondent inspiration!
Let fame place it among her richest
treasures in the Pantheon of Immor-
tality, and let the time-swept harp of
ages swell in grander strain the giant
anthem of its praise!
Fathers, brothers, husbands and sons,
who are more profoundly interested
and concerned in all that pertains to
the peace, the happiness, and pros
perity of our country than the noble
women of the land2 They are here