The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-25
BROwNSoN MEMORIAL.
Will Be Unveiled at Stockbridge July A.
Sketch of Famous Publicist.

One of the most noted events of the
year will take place at Stockbridge, Vt.
on July 4, when monument TO Orestes
| Augustus Brownson, a famous phil~lso
pher, who was born in that town, will
be dedicated with fitting ceremonies
Brownson is one of the famous sons Of
Vermont who is better known away
than he is in the state which gave him
birth, and since the agitation to erect
a monument to his memory in Vermont
arose, the question has frequently been
asked who IL Brownson ?" Even in
Stockbridge, where the early days of his
life We're spent on a farm, the older
residents know that famous citizen
of that name was born there but their
children to-day never heard his name
mentioned until recently.
That the name OF this great writer
and critic, and one of the greatest friends
the working man ever had, should not
be unknown in lsis own state, the state
council OF the Knights OF Columbus APP
propnated sum TO erect suitable
monument. and this boulder with bronze
tablet is proposed to be unveiled on In
der Evidence day.
As Brownson was born on one of the
hill farms hard to reach, it is proposed
to erect the memorial in the more set
tied portion OF the town and an APP
propriate spot along the main highway,
Close to the village was selected. The
exercises which will occur at | o'clock
will be public.
The program Of dedicatory exercises
is not yet completed beyond the fact
that ii is expected that James Cosgroye
OF ST. Johnsbury will preside and that
Rev. d. J. 0'Sulliyan former representa-
tive from st. Adams City, will deliver
the Grafton. Thomas w Moloney of
Rutland and W. n Theriault of Mont
peier, and Others will speak.
Orestes Augustus Brownson, philos-
pher, essayist, reviewer was born in
Stockbridge. Sept. l6. 1903, and died in
Detroit, Mich, April IL, 1876. His child
hood was passed on small farm with
plain country people. honest and up
right Congregationalsts At 10 he joined
the Presbyterian church and two years
later was ordained and for three years
wrote and preached as uniVersahst
He abandoned the ministry
and became associated with Robert Dale
Owen and Fanny Wright in their war
on marriage, property and religion, car
ried on in the Free Inquirer, Of which
Brownson, then at Auburn, n. Y, be-
came corresponding editor. At the same
time he established journal in western
New York in the interest of the work
ingmen's party. His sympathes were
always with the laboring class and he
entered on the work of eleyating labor
and making it respected and his aim
was moral and social amelioration rath-
ar than political. lie next Became
Unitarian and remained one for ~ years
In 1882 he settled at Walpole, n. H.,
opposite Bellows Falls and remained two
years. Two years later he was pastor
IF the First Congregational church at
canton Mass, and in 1896 organized in
Boston the Society for Christian Union
md Progress.
Although steadfast Democrat he dis
liked the name Democrat and denounced
,ure democracy. called popular sover-
lightly. He denounced equality OF |
lights. not that men should be all equal |
,ut that all should be ON the same foot
ng and no man should make himself |
aller by standing on another's shoulder |
lie condemned the modem industrial |
ystem of labor at wages Democrats /
we're Mortified at his articles. The Wings |
eprinted them and Van Buren, blamed /
hem for his defeat. He never com
handed more attention or had more
PROMISING career than when he turned |
lis back on honors and popularity in
s44 and became a Catholic at the hands
+ Coadiutor Bishop J. B. Fitzpatrick.
lie published the Boston Quarterly
'eview, later the Brownson Quarterly
'eview and other magazines in which
e did most of the writing, which at
racted nationwide attention. He was
ttacked ON all sides and his answers
nd books published in that period
lake an interesting chapter in religious
nd social era of the first half century
( the Republic. A handsome monu-
tent to his memory has been erected
n Riverside drive, New York.
The monument to be erected at Stock
ridge was cut of Barre granite in the
hops Of the Columbian Granite Co. in
Iontpelier. II stands six feet high. four
,et wide and two feet thick. being of
builder design with bronze tablet. suit
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