You have done nothing, and have protested that you have done nothing, to injure the South. And yet, to get back the shoe trade, you must leave off doing something that you are now doing. What is it? You must stop thinking slavery wrong! Let your institutions be wholly changed; let your State Constitutions be subverted, glorify slavery, and so you will get back the shoe trade — for what? You have brought owned labor with it to compete with your own labor, to underwork you, and to degrade you! Are you ready to get back the trade on those terms?


Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

You have done nothing, and have protested that you have done nothing, to injure the South. And yet, to get back the shoe trade, you must leave off...

You have done nothing, and have protested that you have done nothing, to injure the South. And yet, to get back the shoe trade, you must leave off...

You have done nothing, and have protested that you have done nothing, to injure the South. And yet, to get back the shoe trade, you must leave off...

You have done nothing, and have protested that you have done nothing, to injure the South. And yet, to get back the shoe trade, you must leave off...