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The whole purpose of its laws was to rob and enslave the many--both North and South--for the benefit of a few.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “The whole purpose of its laws was to rob and enslave the many--both North and South--for the benefit of a few.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner asserts that the laws of the government were designed to benefit a few at the expense of the many.
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They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.
On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.