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THE GROUNDSWELL. 



THE RESOLUTIONS AND THEIR CONSIDERATION. 



The Committee on Eesolutions reported the following pre 

 amble and resolutions : 



It is the duty of every government to protect its people. But cap 

 ital, directed by unscrupulous minds, reaps the profits of their labor. 

 Men of great wealth revel in luxury, while those who earn the 

 money are destitute of many of the comforts of life. Our State Leg 

 islatures have made laws depriving us of our land, for which we have 

 a title from the General Government, for the benefit of railroad com 

 panies, because it seemed for the public good. Subsidies have been 

 granted them, and Congress has, with a lavish hand, given them pub 

 lic lands the people s inheritance ; and the result is extortion and 

 oppression. Therefore, be it 



&quot; Pay as you go.&quot; Live in the old house till the farm is all 

 paid for. 



Resolved, By this Convention that we most respectfully but ear 

 nestly request Congress, without needless delay, to pass a maximum 

 freight and passage law regulating traffic between the States, and our 

 Legislatures a law regulating it within the States ; and we hereby pro 

 test against the further granting of any subsidies whatever to private 

 corporations of any kind. 



