So we bought a hand printing-press and set it up in the garret of our establishment.

All the bills we received from our customers, some thousands sometimes every week, we smoothed out and put in a pile, and then printed on their backs a saying we took from Daniel Webster (though I believe it was not quite authentic): 'Of all the contrivances to impoverish the laboring classes of mankind, paper money is the most effective.

It fertilizes the rich man's field with the poor man's sweat.' They tried to punish us for defacing money, but we beat them.

We didn't deface it; we only printed something on the back of it.

Isaac and I often worked all night putting up handbills for our meetings, for in those days there were no professional bill-posters." Father' Hecker's acquaintance with Dr.Brownson, which had so powerful an effect upon his future career, began in 1834, when Brownson was invited to lecture in New York in favor of the principles and aims of this party.