Year: 1872

every community in the county, anC


every county in the State, be organ


lied into clubs, and the variou


clubs, acting in concert through


their corresponding secretaries


will be prepared to break down anC
scatter to the four winds all hostil,


rings. The farmers, by agreeing t


send all their cotton and other pro


duce t. one or two warehouses, viii


be able to make contracts TO hav,


cotton stored and sold at from TWEEN
| ty-fve to fifty cents per bale. BY
having laws to encourage peace


harmony and honesty, two lawyer,


can do all the practice in any coun-


ty, except where there are large cit


les. If the farmers and laboring


men viii unite upon two good law
yers, through the cooperation and


concerted action of all the clubs in


county, they can have their neces-
sary law business attended to at
very moderate rates; for the whole


business will be concentrated into
the hands of only two men. Then
We are clearly interested in reducing
the number to be supported. What
would be Che effect Of this combined
effOrt-all the farmers being united
and acting-in concert as one man?
Clearly, farming would become suf-
.ticiently profitable to remunerate all
those who engage in this business.
Young men would cease to fly from
the country to find a refuge In the
cities. The supernumerary lawyers
could make a good and honest living
blowing The merchants would
be glad to escape the confinement
of the city and find a pleasant re-
treat in a country home, and only
enough would be left to supply the
wants of consumers; and they
could afford to sell their goods at
greatly reduced prices on account
Of the large amount of business that
would fall into their hands. The
mechanics who are so crowded with
numbers as TO make their business
unprofitable, would rejoice to go
upon the farms, provided they are
sufficiently rewarded for their labor
Only enough would continue in this
profession to be constantly en-
ployed, and would not be forced to
consume all their honest earnings
whine waiting for a job, as is now
the case. The farmers would be
able to build larger and better
houses, which would give employ
ment to the house carpenters, and
the profits of the blacksmith would
not be destroyed by competition.
Our cities and towns would not be
thronged with idlers, loungers and
pick pockets. The rural districts
would not be depOpulated, hut the
fields now covered with briars, this
ties and noXious weeds would be
made to smile and blossom as the
rose, and every debt-municipal,
county, State and national-would
soon be paid. The taxes that are
now levied for the support of office
holders would go to liquidate the
public debt, and we would not be
afflicted as our revolutionary fathers
were, and as we now are, with
swarms Of tax gatherers and office
holders to eat out the substance of
the land.


Then, gentlemen-m c Ii an cs,
farmers. laborers and croppers-
come together and organize your
selves into one vast and irresist-
able army to oppose all the vast
and varied combinations and rings
which make war upon you in detail,
and which have made yoa slaves.
Your noses have been held to the
grindstone long enough. Then raj
ly for your mutual defence, and b.;
our united, concerted action break
the manacles which bind you in
slavery. Let beacon fires be kin
died upon every hill top, and sound
the tocsin of war. Let the alarm
bells of the revolution watt its thun-
der tones upon every breeze, calling
upon the yeomanry and the laBoring
clans to assemble for their mutual
defence.