822 THE GROUNDSWELL. 



sidiary associations, State, county, and town, to co-operate with the 

 national associations. The power to accomplish the purposes desired 

 rests absolutely with the suffering millions; and relief is within their 

 reach and control. United action and the near future will give, as 

 certain as its need for all time and the good of all, the true solution 

 of the problem of cheap transportation. 



The resolutions were taken up and discussed at length, and, finally, 

 were adopted unanimously. 



On motion the following committee was appointed to draft 

 an address to the people : Hon. Josiali Quincy, Boston, Mass. ; 



Loading a Steamboat on the Mississippi. 



M. D. Wilbur, Michigan ; Horace H. Day, New York City ; 

 E. H. Ferguson, Troy, New York ; Henry Bronson, Kansas ; 

 J. A. Noonan, Milwaukee ; and W. H. C. Price, New York. 

 The Convention then adjourned to meet in Washington, 

 January, 1874, at the call of the Executive Committee. 



PRESIDENT QUINCY S CALL FOR THE WASHINGTON CON 

 VENTION. 



The call for this Convention, to be held in Washington in 

 January, 1874, was looked forward to with the greatest in- 



