

CHAPTEE XXVIII 



THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CONGRESS OF 



1873. 



OPENING FORMALITIES, ETC. 



Pursuant to adjournment, as mentioned in Chapter XVII, 

 the National Agricultural Congress held its second session 

 at Indianapolis, May 28, 1873, with a large attendance of 

 highly intelligent delegates from twenty-five States. In the 

 absence of the President, Hon. John P. Reynolds, A. M. 

 Garland, Esq., of Illinois, was called to the chair. 



Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, delivered an address of 

 welcome, and was followed by Mayor Mitchell, of Indiana 

 polis, and Hon. John Sutherland, of the Indiana State Board 

 of Agriculture, in some pleasant remarks of similar tenor. 

 General W. H. Jackson, of Tennessee, in responding, on be*&amp;lt; 

 half of the Congress, gave a short history of the gatheriitc* 

 and its objects, concluding his remarks as follows : 



&quot; I regard it as a matter of great importance to all the interests of 

 the country. The reason that actuated us in the formation of this 

 organization was to have greater unity and concert of action among 

 the agricultural classes, whom, we thought, ought to have a voice in 

 the affairs of the State and nation. There was lack of concert of 

 action, and of that cohesiveness which exists in all other classes. We 

 have combinations of capitalists in mining and in manufacturing, in 

 seafaring, in commerce, and the thousand channels through which 



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