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significance rests upon you, gentlemen, to the nation itself. You 
are the vanguard in this reform. Throw down, then, all barriers 
to fraternal union, and clasp hands across the continent, with 
those who need your magnanimity. Assist to annihilate and abol¬ 
ish the offices of customs; and, in your policy and relations with 
the world, as it is with each other, incorporate a system of uni¬ 
versal reciprocity. Agriculture never was overstocked with 
laborers, and never will be. She extends her open arms across 
the waves to other countries and to other climes. She invites 
their skill and labor, and offers in return, competence, homes and 
family-altars. She spreads before the eyes of downtrodden 
humanity the reward of labor due to men. We offer franchise, 
free schools, American civilization and citizenship. Forever they 
are safe, 
PROTECTED BY VIRTUE AND INTELLIGENCE. 
Here, in America, the germ of liberty and equality among men 
was planted by the fathers. Eevolutions defended and enriched 
it with blood, and now it spreads its luxuriant foliage, an asylum 
to all. He who would be one with us, and leave old and danger¬ 
ous issues behind to perish with the ages that nurtured their life, 
is a friend and brother. To him we offer a national emblem, pro¬ 
tection, and national character. Eepublieanism and true Democ¬ 
racy unite in common interest and fraternal union Labor and 
Capital; and I utter the meaning and abiding sentiment of every 
true American when I say: Here we have no room for such as 
would subvert good and wholesome laws and trample upon civil 
rights, or for him who would parade our pincipal cities 
with incendiary mottoes under the red flag of the Communist, 
flaunting in honest men’s faces that arrant, infamous lie: agricul 
ture refuses bread. 
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This paper was carefully prepared, well delivered, and contain¬ 
ed ideas and thoughts worthy the consideration of the farmers of 
the state. Want of space compels an omission of several valuable 
portions. 
