 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...argument should be made in favor of popular institutions ; but there is one point, with its connections, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a...government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital — that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the... | |
 | Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 241 pages
...slave labor: the political consequences are made unmistakably clear. Lincoln begins by referring to "the effort to place capital on an equal footing with,...not above labor, in the structure of government." He ends by warning "those who toil up from poverty" to "beware of surrendering a political power which... | |
 | Mary Garrett, Heidi Gottfried, Sandra F. VanBurkleo - Art - 2008 - 280 pages
...the masthead includes this excerpt from Lincoln's 1861 message to Congress: There is one point ... to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effort...government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow, by the use... | |
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It is not needed nor fitting here that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions, but there is one point with its connections not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effort to place capital... 
