Clash of Extremes Quotes

“Northerners argued that the nation would prosper only if freemen populated the West. New Yorker John W. Talyor underscored the incompatibility of slave and free labor. 'If salvery shall be tolerated, the country will be settled by rich planters, with their slaves,' he noted. 'If it shall be rejected, the emigrants will chiefly consist of the poorer and more laborious classes of society.”
― Marc Egnal, Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War

“Northerners argued that the nation would prosper only if freemen populated the West. New Yorker John W. Talyor underscored the incompatibility of slave and free labor. "If salvery shall be tolerated, the country will be settled by rich planters, with their slaves," he noted. "If it shall be rejected, the emigrants will chiefly consist of the poorer and more laborious classes of society.:”
― Marc Egnal, Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War