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CONSTITUTION
OF
Till:, PRAIRIE COUNTY
AG R1CULTURAL SOCIETY.
offTcers.
President, B. F. Fort ; Vice President, A O.
Edwards; Secretary, R. C. McCarey;
Treasurer, G. A. Mclver; Correspontinsr
Secretary, T. B. Kent.
Directors.—S. R. Brown, J. C. Morrill, Sim
Horne, B. B. Allen, J. C. Davie, B. M
Barnes, D. P. Black. A. Ragland, R. JVc
Iver, A. F. McCain, D. W. Munroe, C. D.
Taylor.
Building Committee.—D. P. Black, A. 0.
Edwards, D. W. Munroe.
Premium Committee.—John S. Pearson, I.
McCarley, R. Mclver, J. S. Williams.
Ring Master.—John S. Pearson.
Herald,—W. W. Wair.
Marshal.—J. G. Warner.
article i.
Title of the Society. — This Society
shall be known by the name of the “Prairie
Comity Agricultural Society.”
article ii.
§ 1. The officers of this Society shall con
sist of a President, Vice President, Secretary.
Treasurer and Directors.
§ 2. Officers and Directors shall hereafter
be elected by ballot at the Annual Meeting ot
the Society in March, and shall hold their
offices one year, and until their successors are
chosen.
§ 3. In the election of officers and direc
tors, a plurality of votes cast shall be necessary
to elect. Vacancies may be filled at any
meeting of the Society.
article III.
§ 1. The President, Vice President, Secre
tary, Treasurer and Directors, shall compose
a Board of Managers, a majority of whom
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of business, and it shall be the duty of said
Board to manage the property and business of
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of Agriculture, Horticulture, the Mechanic
Arts and Household Industry; and they shall
hold and conduct Annual Fairs and Exhibi
tions. and distribute premiums to the persons
exhibiting the best and most meritorious speci
mens in these several departments.
ARTICLE IV.
§ 1. It shall be the duty of the President to
preside at meetings of the Society, and of t.hf
Board of Managers. The Vice President
shall perforin the duties of the President in
his absence.
ATTICLF. v.
o 1. It shall be the duty of the..Secretary to
make and keep a neat record of the proceed
ings of the Society, and of the Board of Mana
gers, and to perforin such other appropriate
duties as inay be assigned him by the Society
or its Board of Managers.
§ 2. The Secretary shall keep a book for
the special purpose of recording the names of
Ihe Annual and Life Members, and the names
of donors, and the amounts contributed by
each; he shall as soon as practical pay over
all monies received by him to the Treasurer.
ARTICLE vi.
§ 1. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to
receive all monies and property due the So
ciety or donated for its benefit, and to dispose
of tile same only as directed by a resolution
of the Board of Managers, certified by the
President and countersigned by the secretary.
He shall keep an account of iiis receipts and
disbursements, and report the same with
proper vouchers to the Society, at its annual
meetings, and to the Board of Managers as
often as they may require; and shall give
bond for the' faithful discharge of his duty
in such surety and sums as they may deem
proper.
ARTICLE VII.
§ 1. The Annual Meetings of this Society
shall he held on the 2d Monday in March of
each year, at such place as the Society may
designate.
ARTICLE VIII.
1. The Board of Managers may make
such Rules, Regulations and By-Laws as they
may deem proper, consistent with the Con
ARTICLE XI.
§ 1. Any person may become a member of
this Society for one year by paying into the
treasury the sum of $1, or may become a life
member by paying at onetime the sum of $10.
article x.
§ 1. This Constitution may be altered or
amended by a vote of two-thirds of all the
members present at any Annual Meeting, or
at a called meeting, provided thirty days
public notice of the same be given.
GENERAL RULES.
1. Life and Annual members of the Society,
and all others who shall pay $1 into the trea
sury, will be furnished with badges entitling
them to compete for premiums, admission
with the bona fide members of their family
with carriages to the Show Ground, and ail
departments of the exhibition during its
continuance.
2. Stock and articles must be entered in the
name of the bona fide owners, and Grain,
Fruit, Vegetables, Dairy Products and Domes
tic Manufactures, must have been raised and
made by the exhibitor thereof, unless excep
tions be' made in the published list of premi
ums offered bv the Board of Managers.
3. Animals and articles that have taken
premiums at previous exhibitions will not be
allowed to compete except for a higher pre
mium, in case they are adjudged best after
having received the highest premium a certi
cate of the fact will be awarded. No animal
or article can compete but for a single pre
mium.
4. Premiums will not be paid on animals or
articles of inferior merit although there may
be no competition. No premium shall be
paid on any animal or article owned by a firm,
unless each member of said firm is a member
of the Society.
5. No person shall act as a judge for award
ing premiums for which he is any way a
competitor.
6. Any person who shall knowingly violate
the regulations of the Society, or who shall
seek to obtain a premium by false pretences,
or by improper inteference with the Judges,
shall be excluded from competition; and if a
member, from the Society.
7. Pemiums awarded and called for at or
before the annual meeting in March will be
considered as donations to the Society.
8. Copetition on all articles open to the
State.
Effects of Abolitionism in the Free
States.
A REMARKABLE PREDICTION.
In 1S39, now twenty one years ago,
Henry Clay made a remarkable speech
upon the effects of the Abolition agitation
at the North. The great fact stands out
now that it is abolitionism at the North
which is desolating and destroying our
Union, and that it is a sentiment which
tends directly to disunion, civil war, anar
chy, and bloodshed. Read what Mr. Clay,
the far-seeing patriot and statesman then
said. It was prophecy then, but it is ra
pidly becoming history now.
A WARNING AGAINST ABOLITIONISTS.
A bolitionism should no longer be regard
ed as an imaginary danger. The Aboli
tionists, let me suppose, succeed in their
present aim of uniting the inhabitants of
the free States as one man, against the
inhabitants of the slave Slates. Union on
the one side will beget union on the other.
And ibis progress of reciprocal consolida
tion will he attended with violent prejudi
:es, embittered passions, and implacable
animosities which ever degraded or de
hrmed human nature. A virtual dissolu
tion of the Union will have taken place,
while the form of its existence remain.
The most valuable element of unity, mu
tual kindness, the feeling of sympathy,
the fraternal bonds which now unite us,
will have been extinguished forever. One
section will stand in menacing and hostile
army against the other. The collision of
opinion will be quickly followed by the
clash of arms.
HIS PICTURE OP THE CONSEQUENCES.
I will cot attempt to describe scenes
which now happily lie concealed from our
view. Abolitionists themselves would
shrink back in dismay and horror at the
contemplation of desolated fields, confla
grated cities, murdered inhabitants, and
the overthrow of the fairest fabric of hu
man government that ever rose to animate
the hope of civilized man.
Nor should the Abolitionists flatter them
selves that if they succeed in their object
of uniting the people of the free States,
they will enter the contest with numerical
superiority that must insure victory. All
j history and experiment proves the hazard
and uncertainty of war. And we are ad
; monished by Holy Writ that the race is
not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
THE CONQUEROR AND THE CONQUERED.
But if tiiey were to conquer, whom
would they conquer i A foreign foe—one
who had insulted our flag, invaded our
shores, and laid our country waste? No,
sir, no. It would be a conquest without
laurels, without glory—a self, a suicidal
conquest—a conquest of brothers over
brothers, achieved by one over another
portion of the descendants of common an
cestors, who, nobly pledging their lives,
their fortunes and their sacred honor, and
fought and bled side by side, in many a
hard battle*on land and ocean, severed our
country from the British crown, and estab
lished our national independence.
THE DEFENSE OF SOUTHERN ACTION.
The inhabitants of the slave States are
sometimes accused by their Northern
brethren with displaying too much rash
ness and sensibility to the operations and
nrnc pprlincTs of Abolitionists. But before
they can be rightfully judged there should
be a reversal of condition. Let me sup
pose that the people of the slave Stales
were to form societies, subsidize presses,
make large pecuniary contributions, send
forth numerous missionaries throughout
their borders, and enter into machinations
to burn the beautiful capitols, destroy the
productive manufactories and sink in the
ocean the .gallant ships of the Northern
States. Would these incendiary proceed
ings be regarded as neighborly or friend
[ ly, and consistent with fraternal sentiment
which should ever be cherished by one
portion of the Union toward another ?
Would they excite no commotion ? Occa
sion no manifestation of dissatisfaction,
nor lead to any acts of retaliatory violence?
But the supposed case falls lar short of the
actual one, in a most essential circum
stance. In »o contingency could these
capitols, manufactories and ships rise in
rebellion and massacre the inhabitants of
the Northern States
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Any Color but Red.—A writer warns
the soldiers against red caps. He says:
“Any color but red for a soldier. No color
strikes the eye so quickly, none forms so
good a mark. My father—an old soldier—
gave as his experience that the destruction
in battle fell chiefly on those who wore the
‘red.’ I am a novice in military matters,
but this I have learned, that the safest col
or is that which harmonize’s best with na
ture’s chief color, green. But as green is
not the chief color in battle, it is not the
most suitable color for the soldiers. The
color'of smoke is gray, and those dressed
throughout in this color can hardly be dis
tinguished from smoke.” We published
an article a day or two ago, in which it
was shown that gray was much the safest
| color.
Vice-President Stephens on the Crisis.
In a speech recently delivered by Vice
President Stephens at Atlanta, he says:
What is to take place before the end I
know not. A threatening war is upon us,
made by those who have no regard for
right! We fight for our homes, our fath
ers and mothers and wives, brothers, sis
ters, sons and daughters, and neighbors!
They, for money ! The hirelings and
mercenaries of the North are all hand to
hand against you.
As l told you when I addressed you a
few days ago, Lincoln may bring his
seventy-five thousand soldiers against us;
but seven times seventy-five thousand men
can never conquer us. We have now
Maryland and Virginia, and ail the bor
der States with us. Wo have ten millions
of people with us, heart and hand, to de
fend us to the death. We can call out a
million of people, if need be; and when
they are cut down we can call another,
and still another, until the last man of the
South finds a bloody grave, rather than
submit to their foul dictation. But a tri
umphant victory and independence, with
an unparalleled career of glory, prosperi
ty and progress, awaits us in the future.
God is on our side, and who shall be
against us ? None but His omnipotent
hand can defeat us in this struggle.
A general opinion prevails that Wash
ington is to be attacked. On this subject
1 can only say, our object is peace. We
wish no aggressions on one’s rights, and
will make none. But if Maryland se
cedes, the District ot Columbia tails to her
by reversionary right—the same as Sum
ter to South Carolina, Pulaski to Georgia,
and Pickens to Florida. When we have
the l ight we will demand the surrender of
Washington, just as we did in the other
cases, and will enforce our demands at
every hazard and at whatever cost. And
here let me say that our policy and con
duct from the first has been right, and
shall be to the last. I glory in this con
sciousness of our rectitude.
Troops are quartered in the Capitol,
who are defacing its walls and ornaments
with grease and filth, like a set of Van
dal hordes. The new Senate chamber has
been converted into a kitchen and quar
ters—cooking and sleeping apparatus have
actually been erected and placed in that
elegant apartment. The Patent office is
converted into soldiers’ barracks, and is
ruined with their filth. The Post-office
Department is made a storehouse for bar
rels of flour and bacon. All the depart
ments are appropriated to base uses and
despoiled ot tfieir beauty by those treach
erous and destructive enemies of our coun
try. Their filthy spoliations of the pub
lic buildings and works of art at the Capi
tal, and their preparations to destroy them,
are strong evidences to my mind that they
do not intend to hold or defend the place,
but to abandon it after having despoiled
and laid it in ruins. Let them destroy it—
savage like—if they will. We will re
build it. We will make the structure more
glorious. ’Phoenix-like, new and more
substantial structures will rise from its
ashes. Planted anew, under the auspices
of our superior institutions, it will live and
flourish throughout all ages.
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Perversion of Facts.—“The minori
ty—a small minority too, are bent upon
the overthrow of that Constitutional Gov
ernment to which the great majority of the
people are ardently and unalterably at
tached.”
We find this and similar paragraphs
pervading the Northern press. We sup
pose they are designed to humbug North
ern people and induce them tobelievo that
the South is making war upon them. Now
so far as we know, there is not the slight
est disposition, on the part of the South to
invade any Northern right. We are per
fectly willing that they may take to them
selves the whole of “that Conslitulion&l
Government”—“the best Government in
the world,” and enjoy every part and par
cel of it. We will not claim any share of
it, they may have the whole of it.”—
[Richmond Whig.
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Preparing for Events.—One of the •
volunteers in New Hampshire, having
got married before leaving for the wars,
his comrades presented him with a baby
wagon, the speech accompanying it being
as follows: “There is an Italian proverb i
‘He that takes a wife, and he that goes to
war, must, be prepared for whatever may
happen.’ We know that in war you aro
thus prepared—in view of your re
sponsibilities, present and prospective, in
behalf of your companions in the Cheshire
Light Guard, I present you this, which
forms the necessary family baggage train,
in order that in peace as well as in war
you may be prepared for whatever may
happen.”
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A gentleman from Washington
informs the New York Herald that Lin
coln has positively had a major-general s
commission made out for Senator Doug
las, and that he will accept.