When the whole labor of a State is performed by a degraded class, that are not included in the State as citizens or social beings, it is impossible but that the class next above them should feel the force of those theories and ideas which have produced such a state of things.
Beecher points out the detrimental effects of a labor class excluded from citizenship on the broader society.
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Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.
It is not a permission of law; it is the inherent right of the individual.
It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.
She has not yet told this Continent all that is in her heart.