But in all cases it is most effectually done.
"Burdens may be put upon our shoulders that are weighing us down, but we have no means of protesting.

Men who administer the laws may discriminate against us to an outrageous degree, but we have no power to remove or to punish them.
"Like lean, hungry dogs, we must crouch beneath our master's table and snap eagerly at the crumbs that fall.

If in our scramble for these crumbs we make too much noise, we are violently kicked and driven out of doors, where, in the sleet and snow, we must whimper and whine until late the next morning when the cook opens the door and we can then crouch down in the corner of the kitchen.
"Oh! my Comrades, we cannot longer endure our shame and misery! "We can no longer lay supinely down upon our backs and let oppression dig his iron heel in our upturned pleading face until, perchance, the pity of a bystander may meekly request him to desist.
"Fellow Countrymen, we must be free.

The sun that bathes our land in light yet rises and sets upon a race of slaves.
"The question remaining before us, then, is, How we are to obtain this freedom?
In olden times, revolutions were effected by the sword and spear.

In modern times the ballot has been used for that purpose.