The whole question of slavery was thus reopened, for the sacredness of the compact of 1820 and the wickedness of its violation depended largely upon the character of slavery itself, and our constitutional relations to it.
Julian discusses the reopening of the slavery debate and its constitutional implications.
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The legalized robbery now carried on in the name of Protection to American labor must be overthrown.
The tyranny of industrial domination, which borrows its life from the alliance of concentrated capital with labor-saving machinery, must be overthrown.
The system of agricultural serfdom called Land Monopoly, which is now putting on new forms of danger in the rapid multiplication of great estates and the purchase of vast bodies of lands by foreign capitalists, must be resisted as a still…
The withdrawal of the slavery question from the strife of parties has changed the face of our politics as completely as did its introduction.
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