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The same considerations produced a directly opposite conclusion in the South, where those interest in slave labor could not afford to build up a class of free laborers with high wages and independent opinions.
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Blaine discusses how the South's reliance on slave labor hindered the development of a free labor class with independent opinions.
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Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
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