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Let the proudest mill-owner break but the skin of the poorest operative in Lowell or Lawrence, and both law and public sentiment, alike, would grasp and punish him!
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “Let the proudest mill-owner break but the skin of the poorest operative in Lowell or Lawrence, and both law and public…”
Editor's note · Context
This statement highlights the strong public sentiment in the North against violence towards workers, advocating for justice.
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An infernal Juno, envious of the destined greatness of this country, hath sent this serpent upon it!
Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.
All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.
If the South shall give to the country a policy derived from her heathen notions of men, there will be such a peace as men have overdrugged with opium, that deep lethargy just before the mortal convulsions and death!