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It is true, because labor is the peculiar badge of Slavery.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Editor's note · Context
Beecher highlights the association of labor with slavery in the South, marking a stark contrast to the North.
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If the power of producing effects is the criterion of value, the few will always be the most valuable, and the mass relatively, subordinate, and the weak and lowest will be left helplessly worthless.
For fifty years the imperious spirit of the South has sought and gained power.
The whole chance of Right, and the whole theory of Liberty, springs from that part of man that lies beyond this life.
Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.