...propertied men like Hone, took the side of Judge Edwards. The wiser view was expressed by the Evening Pott. "If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the Bale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe...

...by the courts for striking against low wages, Bryant branded the verdict as one enforcing slavery, a "law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor." He was equally vehement in his abolitionism and in his espousal of the Free Soil side in the issue...

...temper of this movement. Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity or justice than the law which arms the rich with the...definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labour from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well at once bind him to a master, or ascribe...