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tion, and assistance. The committees, in their joint session, found 

 themselves able to agree, and the matter of their agreement being 

 reported back to their several orders, was heartily indorsed by all con- 

 cerned. It recognizes common citizenship, assures commercial equality 

 and legal justice, and pledges each of the several organizations for the 

 common protection of all. This agreement will be known in future ages 

 as the burial of race conflict, and finally of race prejudice. Its announce- 

 ment has fired many hearts with renewed hope, has given a new impetus 

 to progress among the people, and will exert tremendous influences in 

 the healing of sectional and national misconceptions and prejudices 

 throughout the entire country. 



"DECLARATION OF PURPOSES OF THE COLORED FARMERS' NATIONAL ALLIANCE 

 AND CO-OPERATIVE UNION OF THE UNITED STATES. 



" The seventh section of the charter declares the object of this corporation shall 

 be to elevate the colored people of the United States, by teaching them to love their 

 country and their homes; to care more for their helpless and sick and destitute; to 

 labor more earnestly for the education of themselves and their children, especially 

 in agricultural pursuits. 



"To become better farmers and laborers, and less wasteful in their methods of 

 living. 



" To be more obedient to the civil law, and withdraw their attention from political 

 partisanship. 



" To become better citizens, and truer husbands and wives." 



