This view of the end to labor for I held steadily and without wavering from 1828 till 1842, when I began to find myself tending unconsciously towards the Catholic Church.' "The reader will have seen by the extracts given that we were a party full of enthusiasm.

I was but fifteen when our party called Dr.
Brownson to deliver the lectures above mentioned.

But my brothers and I had long been playing men's parts in politics.

I remember when eleven years of age, or a year or two older, being tall for my years, proposing and carrying through a series of resolutions on the currency question at our ward meetings.

As our name indicates-- 'Workingman's Democracy'-- we were a kind of Democrats.