The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-20
ONLY TRAMP.
NO s..

l was tramping through Cabarr,,s
county sometime ago, and by chance 7
happened upon an assemblage of conn
try people. They had met to consider
principles which affected their welfare
and to see if they could not lend their
influence against principles detrimen.
tai to their good. Being a tramp. thew
wanted me to say what l thought was
a matter with everything, and being
always load9d up for 'bear." 7 con.
sented. OF course there is a combina-
ton OF causes, but one of the chief of
them Is C~leveland's gold bug-monopolv
pollcy. And we ought to declare our
independence of them. l gave this as
Joe Jackson's second Declaration of In
dependence.
When, IN the course of human events,
1t becomes necessary for our people to
dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another. and To
assume, among the powers of the earth.
the separate and equal station to which
the laws OF nature and of natures God
entltle them, a decent respect to the
opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impeI
them to the separation. We hold these
truths to be self evident-that all men
are created equal; that they are en-
dowed by their Creator with 'certain
lnallenable rights; that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness; that, to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among men.
deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed; that, when
ever any form of government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the right
of the people to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute a new government,
laying its foundation on such principles,
and organizing its powers in such form
as to them shall seem most likely to
affect their safety and happiness. Pru-
dence, indeed, will dictate that govern
ments long established sh1uld not be
changed for light and transient causes;
and, accordingly, all experience hath
shown that mankind are more disposed
to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accus-
toned. But when a long train of abuses
and usurpatiOns, pursuing invariably
the same object, evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty to
throw off such government, and to
provide new guards for their future
security. Such has been the patient
sufferance of these colonies, and such
is the necessity which constrains them
to alter their former systems of gov
eminent. The history of the present
President, Cleveland, is a history of
repeated injuries and usurpations, all
having, in direct object, the establish
ment of an absolute tyranny over these
States. To prove this, let facts be sub
mitted to a candid world:
He has refused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary for the
public good, viz: the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, etc.
He has forbidden his servants to pass
laws of immediate and pressing i'm
portance, viz: tariff reform laws.
He has refused to pass other lawsfor
the accommodation of the people, viz:
laws prohibiting the alien ownership
of lands.
He has called together legislative
bodies for the 1sole purpose Of fatiguing
them into compliance with his meas
ures, to wit, the extra Congress just
held-a fair sample,
He has influenced representative
houses repeatedly for opposing with
manly frmness his invasions on the
rights of the people, to-wit, the ease
with which he issued bonds, and by so
doing Injuries the country.
He las ~obstructed the administration
of justice by refusing his assent to
many worthy aspirants for Office.
He has made Senators and Repre-
sentatives dependent OF his will alone
for the tenure of their Offices, tO-wit,
Ransom and Voorhees,,
He would erect a provincial govern
ment to the detriment of our country,
to-wit, Hawaii.
He has combined with others to sub
iect US to a jurisdiction foreign to our
Constitution, and unacknowledged by
our laws, giving his assent to their acts
of pretended legislation, viz: his pan
dering to Wall street and foreign mo-
nopolies.