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made with our people than to conclude that the manufactories of the 

 world or this country can or should be transferred to this locality. God 

 never intended that one simple section of this world should ever be 

 independent of other sections. We are tied together thus by nature, 

 and the largest amount of happiness and prosperity depends upon the 

 freedom and interchange of ideas and products ; and when friendship 

 reigns supreme between the States in this Union, then will this inter- 

 change of ideas become universal and profitable ; and when absolute 

 control by the government of the transportation of this country can be 

 had, then an interchange of products, with the greatest possible profit to 

 the producer, with no gambling or speculative prices to the consumer, 

 will demonstrate that the products of the one section so peculiarly 

 adapted thereto can be exchanged with other sections at a profit. 

 These conditions, therefore, are necessary to the development of the 

 agricultural South. We need a diversified agriculture to that extent, at 

 least, that will cover the absolute necessities ef life. This is rendered 

 vital on account of the fact that transportation and gambling in prices 

 setting one side the question of supply and demand are in the 

 hands of those whose motto seems to be to enrich themselves at the 

 sacrifice of the people. No country in the world will admit of greater 

 diversity as to the necessities of life, and to this extent no people are 

 wise and provident who discard the fact. 



We need, in the South, justice and impartiality at the hands of our 

 national government. Being purely an agricultural section, the burdens 

 of taxation have largely fallen on our people. Indeed, the discrimina- 

 tion in favor of manufacturers, shipping, fisheries, internal transportation, 

 capitalists, gamblers, and speculators, has been wicked and unlimited. 

 This the South demands should stop ; and with the help of the people 

 from other agricultural sections of this Union we are determined it 

 shall stop. 



We need, in the South, a monetary system, established by the govern- 

 ment, that will promote and protect the industries of the South ; (in this 

 we have a common lot with all industries in this great country ;) a finan- 

 cial system not dependent upon that of European countries, a system 

 not intended primarily to facilitate and build up capitalists from abroad, 

 but a currency distinctly constituted, first for the benefit of American 

 citizens and American enterprises ; a flexible currency, owned and con- 

 trolled by the government, not to be expanded or contracted by capital- 

 ists ; a currency sufficient in volume to meet the demands of every citi- 

 zen of the country, at all seasons of the year ; a currency to be regulated 

 in amount only by the demands of the people ; a currency so cheap as 



