 | History - 1980 - 224 pages
...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,... | |
 | David Montgomery - Business & Economics - 1967 - 556 pages
...which the "prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors...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... | |
 | Ira Berlin - History - 1993 - 830 pages
...life. . . . The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors...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... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...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... | |
 | Michael Novak - Social Science - 1984 - 316 pages
...general rule. The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors...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... | |
 | African Americans - 1990 - 988 pages
...life. . . . The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors...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... | |
 | Ira Berlin - History - 1992 - 270 pages
...life. . . . The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors...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... | |
 | Julie Saville - History - 1994 - 246 pages
...for life": The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors...energy and progress and improvement of condition to all.6 Curiously, celebrating the toiler's rise to property-owning status and selfemployment became... | |
 | Paul Salstrom - Business & Economics - 1994 - 244 pages
...laborers. The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors...generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all—gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all." 26... | |
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The prudent, penniless beginner 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. This is the just and... 
