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But the whole South is a vast work-house for the slave while young, and a vast alms-house for him when old, and neither young or old, is he permitted to feel the responsibility for labor.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “But the whole South is a vast work-house for the slave while young, and a vast alms-house for him when old, and neither…”
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Beecher critiques the Southern system, arguing it fosters dependency rather than responsibility among its people.
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Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.
The New-England theory of Government has always been in its element--first, independent men; then democratic townships; next republican States, and, in the end, a Federated Union of Republican States.
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