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of the farmers and workshops of the country as they, in 

 the exercise of their uncontrolled discretion, may determine. 

 The object of the people of the State must be to overthrow 

 this pretension, and to establish the doctrine that freights, 

 and all that relates to the transportation, storage, and sale of 

 the products of the industry of the country, shall be relieved 

 from the arbitrary rule of monopolies, and be subjected to 

 such regulations as may harmonize with reason and justice.&quot; 

 He hoped the work of the convention would be to call the 

 attention of the people to these opposing propositions, and to 

 urge them to support that which is most reasonable and just, 

 and also to suggest the means by which success might be 

 secured for the right. 



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The various phases of the transportation and warehouse 

 questions were earnestly discussed by the delegates, and, as 

 a rule, in an impartial spirit, only a small proportion of the 

 speakers indulging in appeals to the passions of the audience. 

 Strong resolutions were passed, denouncing the wrongs 

 under which the producers labored, and the necessity of 

 prompt and consecutive action to obviate these wrongs. A 

 motion to send an official copy of the resolution to the 

 President of the Constitutional Convention, then in session, 

 was carried, and the following declaration was adopted : 



&quot; This Convention declares, First : That the present rates of taxa 

 tion and transportation are unreasonable and oppressive, and ought 

 to be reduced. 



&quot;Second : That our legal rights to transportation and market ought 

 to be clearly set forth and denned. 



&quot; Third : That if there be any legal remedy under existing laws for 

 the wrongs we suffer, such remedy ought to be ascertained and en 

 forced. 



