What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.
I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
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