When the whole labor of a State is performed by a degraded class, that are not included in the State as citizens or social beings, it is impossible but that the class next above them should feel the force of those theories and ideas which have produced such a state of things.
Beecher points out the detrimental effects of a labor class excluded from citizenship on the broader society.
Share
More from Henry Ward Beecher
If he must stand by what he is, how surely must he be given over to weakness, to abuse, to oppressions.
But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.
She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.
But New-England was not raised up by Divine Providence to play a mean part in the world's affairs.