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See also chapter 8 in this volume, p. 344. 109 Introduction 37 Brownson dismissed the fourth objection that he falsified the conditions of the laboring classes. 113 He protested that he did not prefer the slave system over free labor, as some charged. Such a charge was the “device of the Devil”114 and intended to draw attention away from the culprits who profited from the wage system and made their own wealth on the backs of the proletariat. Those under the free labor system were better off than the slaves with respect to human dignity, legal freedoms, and the franchise, but with respect to actual freedom and access to the goods of creation, which God had given to all equally, they were imprisoned in the new economic slavery.
Christianity was at the root of Democracy, and Democracy stood for the people most in need. There was within Christianity a reforming and purifying spirit that worked progressively throughout history for the emancipation and liberation of the entire human race. That too was what the Democratic party was called to do if it was to realize its true mission. The political and reforming refrain came through even in Brownson’s conversion novel, Charles Elwood. In the chapter on “The Reformer,” he records Elwood’s sense of frustration with the injustices in society, especially as they affected the masses of workers.
The future policy for the Democratic party, Brownson wrote, was to develop bold and new measures to bring about liberty and equality in society, but the political platform was still the same: opposition to the banks and paper money, and assertion of the rights of the laboring classes. He hinted, too, that the Democrats would be well served if they chose John C. 135 He continued to toot the Democratic states rights horn. There were no signs that his political philosophy was in any state of crisis.