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It is ranking oneself with a slave by doing a slave's tasks; as eating a beggar's crust with him would be a beggar's fellowship.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “It is ranking oneself with a slave by doing a slave's tasks; as eating a beggar's crust with him would be a beggar's…”
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Beecher compares the act of performing menial tasks to associating oneself with a lower social status.
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Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!
If the South shall give to the country a policy derived from her heathen notions of men, there will be such a peace as men have overdrugged with opium, that deep lethargy just before the mortal convulsions and death!
All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.
Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.