The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-27
BROWNSON MEMORIAL
Will Be Unveiled at Stockbridse Ju-
ly q; Sketch of Famous Publicist

Will Be Unveiled at Stockbridse Ju-
ly q; Sketch of Famous Pubicist
One of the most noted events of
the year will take place at Stock
bridge. VT, on July when a monu-
ment to Orestes Augustus Brownson,
a famous philosopher, who was born,
in that town will be dedicated with
fitting ceremonies. Brownson is one
of the famous sons of the Vermont
who is better known away than he
is in the state which gave him birth,
and since the agitation to erect
monument to his memory in Yer
mont, arose the question which has
frequently been asked who is Brown
SOM" Even in Stockbridge where
the early days of his life were spent
on farm. the older residents know
that a famous citizen of that name
was born there but their children
today never heard his name men,
toned until recently.
That the name of this great writer
and critic. and one of the greatest
friends the working man ever had,
HOA Ot III Ills OWN
state, the state council of the
Knights OF Columbus appropriated
sum to erect suitable monument,
and this boulder with bronze tablet
is proposed to be uneviled on indie
pendence day.
AS Brownson was born on one of
the hill farms, hard to reach, it is
proposed to erect the memorial in
the more settled portion OF the
town and an appropriate spot along
the main highway close to the viii
lage was selected. The exercises.
which will occur at l o'clock, will be
public.
The programme of dedlcatory ex-
ercises are not yet completed be-
yond the fact that it is expected
that James Cosgrove, of st. Johns
bury will preside and that Rev. u. j.
O'Sulfvan, former representative
from st. Adams city, will deliver the
grafton. Thomas w. Moloney. of
Rutland and w. N. Theriault of
Montpelier, and others will speak.
Orestes Augustus Brownson, phil
ospher, essayist, reviewer was
born in Stockbridge, September 16,
1903 and died in Detroit, Mich,
April II. 1876. His childhood was
passed on small farm with plain
country people, honest and upright
Congregationalists. At 10 he Joined
the Presbyterian church and two
years later became a Universalist
and four years later was ordained
and for three years wrote and
| preached as a Universalist minister.
He abandoned the ministry and be-
came associated with Robert Dale
Owen and Fanny Wright in their
war on marriage, property and re-
ligion carried on i'm the Free In
! quirer of which Brownson. then at
| Auburn, n. Y. because correspond.
ing editor Al the same time he es.
tablished a journal in western New
York in the interest of the Working.
mems party. His sympathies we're
always with the laboring class and
he entered on the work of eevating
labor and making it respected and
his aim was moral and social ameli
Grafton rather than political. He
next became Unitarian and remain,
ed one for II years. In 1882 he set
tied at Walpole, n. H., opposite Bel
lows Falls and remained there two
years. Two years later he was pas
tor of the First Congregational
church at Canton, Mass and in 1886
organized in Boston The Society for
Christian Union and Progress.
Although a steadfast Democrat he
disliked the name Democrat and de
nounced pure democracy, called pop
ular sovereignty. He denounced
equality of rights, not that mer
should be all equal but that all
should be on the same footing and
no man should make himself taller
by standing on another's shoulder
He condemned the modern indus
trial system OF labor at wages
Democrats were Mortified at his ar
ticles. The Wings reprinted them