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“Historically, the matter of illegal immigrants is not new to Wayne County. Like those earlier visitors to our area, today’s new arrivals are largely met by the fears and prejudices of locals. Sympathy for and comfort given to these visitors is as unpopular now as in days past. Today, it is the Hispanic who seeks economic freedom in a land that gives only tacit consent to his presence in exchange for cheap labor; a century-and-a-half ago, it was the fugitive slave who sought to rid himself from the shackles of another popular economic institution.
Levi Coffin, one of a tiny minority among even his own peers, was an active agent in a national effort known as the free-labor movement. It was an economic attack on slavery, recognizing that all Americans perpetuated bondage by purchasing cheap materials produced by slaves, exactly as we, today, drive the demand for illegal aliens for the same economic benefit. Coffin’s store in present day Fountain City sold, for a time, only goods made without the use of slaves. This effort, as was a later effort in Cincinnati, was a miserable failure. Americans then and now purchase with their wallets, not their largely unexamined consciences.”
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