Quotes About Free-labor

People came in wagons and on horseback from many miles around to festival-like meetings from Ashtabula to Youngstown, Massillon to Leesburg, Salem to Munson. They had tapped into the grass roots of the free-labor militancy and Christian idealism of the Western Reserve.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.