Quote from Horace Greeley 

"We have stricken the shackles from 4,000,000 human beings
and brought all labourers to a common level,
but not so much by the elevation of former slaves
as by reducing the whole working population,
white and black, to a condition of serfdom.
While boasting of our noble deeds,
we are careful to conceal the ugly fact
that by our iniquitous money system
we have manipulated a system of oppression which,
though more refined, is no less cruel than
the old system of chattel slavery."

Quote by:
Horace Greeley
(1811-1872) Editor of the New York Tribune, ran against Ulysses Grant for presidency
Date:
1872
 
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