These last have been the direct cause of awakening the
people to a realization of their condition. For each aggression of
corporate wealth the people have been forced from their position as free
men to that of servants. The climax is reached when the Monopolies adopt
the paternal principle of pensioning their employees, thus making of
them retainers in name, as they have long been in fact.
"I shall leave you to your thoughts," says Nevins, in parting. He walks
to the entrance of the hotel with Trueman. When his friend departs he
returns to his room.
Three of the Committee of Forty are awaiting him. They have come for a
short consultation. At the convention they are to be the trusted
lieutenants of Nevins.
There is no money to be distributed; no patronage to be pledged for the
support of delegates. The preliminary arrangements of battle are
strangely dissimilar to those of any preceding convention that has been
held in this country for half a century.
The magnitude of the cause that brought forth the Democracy in the days
of Jefferson, and the Republican party in the days of Lincoln, is again
attracting true patriots; the cry of a people which has long been
outraged is demanding to be heard; it has reached the ears of a faithful
few who put country above price. It is of such material that the new
party is composed.
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