of labor and to deliver the laborer, to lift from the brows of workingmen the dishonor of enforced toil, and to make our country a glorious land where labor can look up and be proud amidst its toil. I did what I could to bring it as a party into being. It has done grand work for the country and for the toiling men of the country, and of the world, too. History records no nobler achievements. Its work is not yet secure, nor is it completed. I can do nothing to endanger that work; nor can I do anything to arrest the completion of the work imposed upon the Republican party by the needs of the country and the logic of its own principles, that require it to be as true to the interests of white workingmen as it has been to the interests of black workingmen. I am constrained by an imperitive sense of duty to stand by the Republican party till its great work is secured and finished. But whatever I can do shall ever be done to aid in improving, elevating and rewarding labor." Mr. Wilson is now writing, and has published one volume of an elaborate "History of the Slave Power in America," which promises to be a monumental work on the subject. CHAPTER XXIX. BENJAMIN GRATZ BROWN. Of Aristocratic Family-Graduates at Yale-Studies Law-Moves to St. Louis-Cultivates the Germans-Goes to the Legislature-Starts the Democrat "Elected to the United States Senate-Governor of Missouri-His Characteristic Traits-A Habitual Bolter and Extremist-How he Doubled on his Track as to Amnesty-Brown and the Schoolma'amsSome of his Flights Accounted for. The Democratic candidate for Vice-President is Benjamin Gratz Brown, of Missouri. Mr. Brown is not, as Greeley called him, not long since, “a third-rate lawyer." He is a man of ability, and his career has been a brilliant one, erratic, perhaps, but still brilliant. Some points of it follow. Unlike the three other gentlemen whose names appear upon the national ticket of 1872 as candidates for the Presidency or Vice-Presidency, Mr. Brown is of what we may call aristocratic birth; and this fact in Kentucky was unquestionably of great service to him. His father was the late Judge Mason Brown, of Frankfort, a lawyer and jurist of note, and the son of John Brown, the first person ever chosen Senator from Kentucky. He is a kinsman of the Prestons, Breckenridges, Blairs. McDowels, Bentons and other well-known families, whose members have been prominent in national and State affairs since the formation of the Government. EARLY HISTORY. Gratz was born on the 28th of May, 1826, at Lexington; graduated at the Transylvania "University," and at Yale College, taking his bachelor's degree at the latter institution when he was only twenty-one years of age. He next studied law at Louisville, whence he moved to St. Louis in 1850 and commenced the practice of this profession. At law he was successful, but preferred politics. He was chosen to the State Legislature in 1852, and served there for several terms. In St. Louis were many Germans, and Brown was sagacious enough to see in them an element of power for any politician who could obtain recognition as their representative. They were mostly radical-so was he. They were for the abolition of slavery-so he became, although he had been brought up by slave He has the distinction of making the first speech for emancipation in the Legislature of a slave State, and of founding the first anti-slavery journal in a slave State. Thus we have three editors in the Presidential field-Greeley, Wilson, Brown. nurses. BECOMES A SENATOR. The journal referred to was the Missouri Democrat, which Brownestablished at St. Louis, in 1854, in conjunction with Frank Blair and others, Brown being the chief editorial writer. His articles were |