Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Signs of the Times: A Thrilling and Emotional Recital of the Oppression of the "Toiling Masses of Humanity," From the Building of the Pyramids of Egypt to the Present
If a man has a right to liberty, or self-gov ernment, he has it because of his being a man, and every other man has the same: right for the same reason; and the whole structure of human right falls if it be admitted that this or that man has greater rights than another man for any conceivable reason whatsoever. The privileged few who are assuming rights which do not belong to them remind us of the old tale of the serpent that was warmed to life in the bosom of the peasant. The man hoed of this generation will deliver a stagger ing blow to this class, who are making a car cass of our resources that they may continuemore astonishment than indignation, and men begin to wonder whether such acts, in, defiance of law and justice, are not performed by reason of the actors being drunk with success and blind to the fact that the people are en titled to the benefits of a Constitutional Gov ernment. Party names signify but little. Our first object is to reform abuses and destroy privileges. But when it is plain that the party in power has neither the firmness to refuse what it doe-s not wish to grant, nor good faith to grant what its weakness leads it to prom ise, it is evident that such a party cannot long rule in the United States. In such a case, the question is to ensure the perpetual removal of such a party, and we know the only means for so doing is to transfer the administration to.
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