...in the world labors for wages a while, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and...poverty, none less inclined to take or touch aught whicli they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they...

...in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, and >at length hires another new beginner to help...generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all—gives hopes to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all. This...

...in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and pros]*»row system which opens the way to all — gives hopes to all, and consequent energy and progress...

...in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him If any continue through life in the condition of the hired laborer, it is not the fault of the system,...

...independent of, capital." Recognition of this fact in the North, under popular government, provided "the just and generous and prosperous system, which...and progress, and improvement of condition to all." Let laborers, "beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which, if surrendered,...

...in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him." Yet even in Lincoln's time the American idyll of unending opportunity was vanishing, effaced in part...

...in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him." It was the political rights and power of 6 "Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech," in Documents of American...

...in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him."5 With similar optimism, Northerners also argued that there was no inherent conflict between the...

...And such activity renders the Republic "prosperous" and "generous" and nurtures its moral character: "No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty." Ironically, it was Lincoln, the hard-driving, self-made man who channeled all his ambitions into the...

...in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and...length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor — the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the...