To The Alliance Brotherhood of Sumter County And of Alabama
	
Let us show our Friends and Foes, from this time on, that we have good and justifiable reasons for agitation and arousing to
our own and the common interests and rights of the People.  Let us turn our backs on all displays of grandiloquent gas and
glittering generalities?which means nothing when tried in the crucible of common sense.  Also, let us not be deceived and
led astray by magnificent soap bubbles, or South Sea bubbles, or John Law dynamite explosives, which can sink the finances
of a Nation;--hobbies that bloated leaders delight to ride, and bewilder the benighted eyes of the groundlings.
	We have enough to do within the realms of common sense.  Yea, much that we could accomplish, by united, systematic
action.  Why is it that the 19th century is drawing to a close, and the great mass or our laws are still on a sea of
uncertainty?  Because the People have not spoken and acted with united energy on the matter, as the emperor Napoleon I of
France did, when he said the ?the unwritten Civil Law shall be reduced to a Code;? and it was done.  So our Common Law could
be reduced to a Code.  And that would destroy the law harvest of litigation; as it did in France.
	And why is the general credit system still flourishing, when it has so long been regarded as an evil?  Because it
feeds costly Courts and costly litigation, and favors sharpers.  Because it legalizes the plunder of the Peoples of estates
and families!  Abolish all laws for the enforcement of credit voluntarily given, and the expense of Civil Courts would be
small indeed; and sharpers would be shorn of their power to prey upon property.  No injustice could arise as no credit would
be given on the faith of property.  How numerous the sums and vast the aggregates of wealth that have been and still are
extracted from the People by the Courts and court officers!
	Take our system of Orphans? Courts?ostensibly intended to protect the orphans, the widows and estates; but protects
them as vultures do the lambs!  They grind up estates and give back the toll and keep the grist.  And wherefore?  Because of
this Demon Credit!  Estates of the dead must be taken possession of by an Executor or Administrator, hung up and run as he
pleases, for one, two three or four years, awaiting to see how many will come and take a slice of it.  To illustrate?James
Hair Esqr. died in Jany. 1863.  An Executor took possession at once, held and run the large estate over two years, although
it was known there were no debts of much to pay.  The estate embraced a Tannery, and Shoe, boot and gin-band
manufactory?which in those war times was called a money Tub Mill;--as the income was $800 to $1,000. per week.  Well, it was
too good to give up and the Executor held on as long as he could; put the proceeds in his pockets and allowed the Heirs of
the estate no part of it.  Besides the he got hold of a note, belonging to one of those heirs for $400 in gold funds due on
a House and collected it an put the money in his own pocket and kept it.  Then what?  Why, when the Executor was called to a
settlement; his Bondsmen were financially broke, and his own large property was so fixed up and manipulated that the common
process of law could not reach it.  But he was not satisfied.  There was the large plantation with a large fine house on it,
that James Hair had left to his Widow and Children; and he the said Executor, had James Hair?s signature on his Bond as
Guardian of minor heirs to whom he was owing over $16,000 in gold funds.  And this with court costs, lawyers and litigation
consumed the plantation James Hair had willed to and the house he had built for his Widow and Children.  And those three
minor Heirs got but $6,000 of their money?the $16,000.  And it was said the Executor was a good man.  Then may the Lord
have mercy on the bad men!  And be it known that those three minor Heirs got but $6,000 of the $16,000 their guardian had
received of their money.
	Now this is but one case in thousands of such in principle if not in degree.  And these specifications of facts
and circumstances, bring the wrongs to our minds and feelings in tangible form, not to be misunderstood.  And it excites
our wonder to know how any or our fellow men should dare to perpetrate such wrongs.  And because men die, why should their
estates be stolen and their families robbed?  By what right of natural, human, or Divine justice, can such things be?
 Forsooth!  The People have no wrongs to redress, have they?   It is time they are moved.  They should sweep away all
unjust laws, the general credit system, official bonds, straw bonds, and all civil nonsense; and substitute healthy and
vigorous criminal law for all offenders.  And call theft, and robbery and fraud by their right names, and see that they
are treated as such by the Laws.  
													I. D. Hoyt.