Hoar, Senator George. 1879. "Speech on Wages and Hours of Labor: United States. Congress." The Congressional Globe (13 December), Volume 27, Part 2, p. 102. http://books.google.com/books?id=vE0uAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA102&dq=%22kindred+between+man+and+man,+growing+out+of+the+common+bond%22&client=firefox-a&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22kindred%20between%20man%20and%20man%2C%20growing%20out%20of%20the%20common%20bond%22&f=false
partially reprinted in Foner, Philip S. 1975. History of the Labor Movement in the United States. v. i. From Colonial Times to the Founding of the American Federation of labor (NY: International Publishers): p. 317.
"The International Association of European and American Workingmen has this title to respect among others, that it has established among the nations of the world a relation, that it has recognized a kindred [sic] between man and man, growing out of the common bond of labor, greater, more powerful, more binding than any mere national attachment, or than any tie which connects the subject to the sovereign. America is the last nation that ought to be ungrateful for that sublime accomplishment. In the darkest days of our own war, when the governing classes of England would have been glad to have joined the emperor of France in recognition of the southern confederacy, what prevented it was the angry growl from the workingmen of Lancashire, saying to the English Government, "We love the workingmen of North America a great deal better, we are more nearly allied in interest and in feeling to the workingmen of America, than we are to the aristocracy of England; and although we have borne many things from you, one thing we will not bear, that you shall array the power and the might of England against the cause in which those American workingmen are engaged."
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