Autograph Manuscript, entitled "The March of Aristocracy."
n.d.
by [AMERICANA; RADICALISM] [BROWN, DAVID PAUL. 1795-1872.]
n.d.. Very Good. 8 pp. recto and verso, 177 x 154 mm, browning and fold creases.
The manuscript is signed anonymously as "A Spectator," The assumption is that this manuscript is in Browns hand. Paul Brown was a Philadelphia lawyer who was a member of the New Harmony Community. His essay, known in printed copies bearing his name, criticizes the tendency to elect wealthy people to office: "Aristocracy is that sort of government wherein a few rich men have the Supreme Authority ... how comes it to be so predominate & prescriptive a fashion for people to make choice of rich and not poor individuals to represent them?" Adams, in Radical Literature in America, writes: "The author was an eccentric member of the New Harmony Community, who criticized Owen for not being sufficiently radical. This book contains an attack on private property, banks, rent
and all other adjuncts of the capitalist system." (Inventory #: WB16852)
The manuscript is signed anonymously as "A Spectator," The assumption is that this manuscript is in Browns hand. Paul Brown was a Philadelphia lawyer who was a member of the New Harmony Community. His essay, known in printed copies bearing his name, criticizes the tendency to elect wealthy people to office: "Aristocracy is that sort of government wherein a few rich men have the Supreme Authority ... how comes it to be so predominate & prescriptive a fashion for people to make choice of rich and not poor individuals to represent them?" Adams, in Radical Literature in America, writes: "The author was an eccentric member of the New Harmony Community, who criticized Owen for not being sufficiently radical. This book contains an attack on private property, banks, rent
and all other adjuncts of the capitalist system." (Inventory #: WB16852)