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The history of all governments exhibits the struggles of two great parties—one rallying under the banner of the rights of property, the other under those of persons. The one will strive as a matter of course, to resolve the whole system into an extension of the rights of property so as to swallow up and annihilate those of persons. The latter will stand on the defensive and do all that is in its power to preserve and defend them. The contest is between the rights of men and the rights of things of inanimate substance. In short, they maintain the superiority of matter over mind; that property is the best of merit – and that the sordid miser who has heaped up riches and the unprincipled swindler or speculator are better entitled to a will and influence in the government than the laboring man who cultivates a farm, or the mechanic.
July 8, 1839
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