C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Ballot

A weapon that comes down as still
As snow-flakes fall upon the sod;
But executes a freeman’s will,
As lightning does the will of God;
And from its force, nor doors nor locks
Can shield you ’tis the ballot-box.

J. Pierpont.

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