tself peacemaker,
reconciler, schoolmaster and protector--to which we are
bound by every necessity and every reason; and I speak also
for the good of the States lately in rebellion, as well as
for the glory and safety of the Republic, that it may be an
example to mankind.

Ay, sir, the ballot is the Columbiad of our political life,
and every citizen who has it is a full-armed Monitor.

The ballot is _schoolmaster_. Reading and writing are of
inestimable value, but the ballot teaches what these can not
teach.

Plutarch records that the wise men of Athens charmed the
people by saying that _Equality causes no war_, and "both
the rich and the poor repeated it."

The ballot is like charity, which never faileth, and without
which man is only as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
The ballot is the one thing needful, without which rights of
testimony and all other rights will be no better than
cobwebs, which the master will break through with impunity.
To him who has the ballot all other things shall be
given--protection, opportunity, education, a homestead. The
ballot is like the Horn of Abundance, out of which overflow
rights of every kind, with corn, cotton, rice, and all the
fruits of the earth. Or, better still, it is like the hand
of the body, without which man, who is now only a little
lower than the angels, must have continued only a little
above the brutes. They are fearfully and wonderfully made;
but as is the hand in the work of civilization, so is the
ballot in the work of government. "Give me the ballot, and I
can move the world."

Do you wish to see harmony truly prevail, so that industry,
society, government, civilization, may all prosper, and the
Republic may wear a crown of true greatness? Then do not
neglect the ballot.

Lamartine said, "Universal Suffrage is the first truth and
only basis of every national republic."

In regard to "Taxation without representation," Mr. Sumner quotes
from Lord Coke:

The Supreme Power cannot take from any man any part of his
property _without consent in person, or by representation_.