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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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And aroused by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of men that have not bowed the knee to Baal--and we will war it to the knife, and knife to the hilt.
Having once given forth this spirit of liberty, now fading out of our Southern States, the North should again come forth and refill the poisoned veins that have been drinking the hemlock of Despotism with the new blood of Liberty!
Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!
Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.