Excerpt from The Anglo-African Magazine, Vol. 2: January, 1860

The Plebeians of Ancient Republican Rome were oppressed and enslaved by the Patricians, until, goaded to madness by their wrongs, they refused to enlist in defense of their country, until they Obtained the assurance that their grievances should be redressed. And finally, having been Often deceived by promises made in time of war, which were as often broken in the follow ing peace, the plebeian armies deserted their officers in the midst of a pressing war, and marched to Mons Sacer, a hill with in three miles Of Rome, where, being joined by a vast multitude of their discontented brethren, they compelled the haughty Pat ricians, menaced by foreign foes without, and a servile war within, to grant them their freedom and the restoration of their rights.

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