John Brown
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 52
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV. OLA-PODEIDA. Section I.--The Power Of The Ballot. [From the Western Watchman.] [The following is from a pioneer in political progress, and namesake of "John Brown, of Pottawattamie." He is a man, too, of similar character, as to persistent adherence to the right under any and every discouragement and temptation, though less harsh and rugged than the hero of Harper's Ferry. It will be perceived that he has not yet viewed the ballot question in the light of recent investigations, but he will probably read with interest, the report of Cosgrave's Stockton lecture in our last issue, as well as other documents ou the subject that we shall place within his reach.--Ed. Watchman.] Your letter and Western Watchman papers reached me several days since, and I have been pondering over their contents. * * * The great labor question is daily nearing some end; but what that end will be 1 am unprepared to divine. So long as men vote for a master, they should be subservient to him. A.t the polls, man, under our form of government, has the right to demand redress for the 'wrongs done him; the poll is the key with which to unlock his fetters, and let his chains fall off. It seems to me, the remedy for all wrongs is in the hands of the voters, and so long as they sell their birth-right, they will be hampered by the consequence of their own doings. The laboring class is largely in the majority, and yet they do not send one friend to Congress; they vote for the banker and the bondholder, and thus place themselves in the jaws of the destroyer of themselves and the persecutors of their family. 1 spent much of my time and money in the Greenback party; and, to tell you the truth, I am nearly worn out and am tired trying to help men when they will not...