The principle is this, that labor and capital are equally interested in the productions that flow from their joint operations; that is, the capital that gives employment to one hundred laborers is entitled to an equal interest with the laborers in what is produced.
Woodhull emphasizes the equal stake that both laborers and capitalists have in the outcomes of their joint efforts.
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Or will they sell their birthright for less than a “mess of pottage?” Is it necessary that some great calamity come before an awakening to the reality of the condition will occur?
To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.
Now, what we require is a measure of values of just as fixed and absolute a character as any of these.
Whatever may have been the arguments favorable for the continuance of the institution of slavery, the destruction of it has rendered them nugatory, and but few of those who once used them could now be found to favor its resurrection.