Whatever obligations the country may be under to those who hold its securities, it is under still greater to the producing interest, to which it must look for the ability to retire them when called upon so to do by the tenor of the contract they contain.
Woodhull emphasizes the greater obligation to the producing classes over those holding securities.
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If he will not labor, society should compel him.
Or will they sell their birthright for less than a “mess of pottage?” Is it necessary that some great calamity come before an awakening to the reality of the condition will occur?
They must and will attain their journey’s end.
Now, what we require is a measure of values of just as fixed and absolute a character as any of these.