But they stand there, not by legal force, nor to exercise any legal power, or to have one single privilege or prerogative, which does not belong just as much to every citizen clear down to the bottom.
This quote emphasizes that societal status in the North is not based on legal privileges but on merit and capability.
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Right would be a word as much out of place as among birds and beasts.
Is it my excited ear that hears an airy phantasm whispering? or do I hear a solemn voice crying out, "Arise?
Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.
But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.