The Farmers' Alliance History and Agricultural Digest, Volume 1Alliance, 1891 - 742 pages |
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... important . Of course nothing of detail can be found , but the fact of their existence at this early period , and their subsequent extinction , is an indication that the ancients were , after all , far in advance of the recent past in ...
... important . Of course nothing of detail can be found , but the fact of their existence at this early period , and their subsequent extinction , is an indication that the ancients were , after all , far in advance of the recent past in ...
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... important to the whole people of Texas . At that time gangs of horse - thieves were stealing horses and running them through the country . It was necessary that the sheriff should know whom to trust . The Alliance had in its secret work ...
... important to the whole people of Texas . At that time gangs of horse - thieves were stealing horses and running them through the country . It was necessary that the sheriff should know whom to trust . The Alliance had in its secret work ...
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... importance , since it sometimes held its meetings at a country school - house , with perhaps five or ten delegates from adjacent Alliances . Business was completed usually in one day , and the outside world took but little interest in ...
... importance , since it sometimes held its meetings at a country school - house , with perhaps five or ten delegates from adjacent Alliances . Business was completed usually in one day , and the outside world took but little interest in ...
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... important of all that had been held , as it marked out a course that the Alliance has since pursued . Offi- cers were elected for the term of one year . A constitution was revised and ordered printed . The number of Alliances had in ...
... important of all that had been held , as it marked out a course that the Alliance has since pursued . Offi- cers were elected for the term of one year . A constitution was revised and ordered printed . The number of Alliances had in ...
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... important resolution was adopted : - " That the Committee on Secret Work condense the three obligations into one , and report the same to the president of the Grand State Alliance , in time for printing with the amended constitution ...
... important resolution was adopted : - " That the Committee on Secret Work condense the three obligations into one , and report the same to the president of the Grand State Alliance , in time for printing with the amended constitution ...
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Popular passages
Page 723 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which he was before, a citizen or subject," which proceedings must be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Page 705 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Page 378 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 449 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Page 617 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home ; A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home ! home ! sweet, sweet home ! There's no place like home...
Page 726 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 727 - He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 647 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 728 - Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris. NEW JERSEY. — Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark. PENNSYLVANIA. — Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross.
Page 276 - But what of the negro ? Have we solved the problem he presents or progressed in honor and equity toward solution? Let the record speak to the point. No section shows a more prosperous laboring population than the negroes of the South, none in fuller sympathy with the employing and land-owning class.