counterexpanding

Updated: May 9, 2025

And in view of the unavoidable conflict of our counterexpanding systems of labor, their constant tendency to encroach the one upon the other in the operation, and the bitter and ever-enduring dread and increasing demands of the weaker, it was impossible for the compromise of 1820 to prove otherwise.

Archibald Henry Grimké - Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States: The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12

The soul of the compromise measures of 1833, which provided for the gradual abolishment, during nine years, of the specific features of the high tariff objectionable to the South, failed, however, to reach the real seat of the trouble, namely, the counterexpanding movements of the two systems, with their mutual inclinations during the operation, to encroach the one upon the other, and a natural tendency on the part of the stronger to destroy the weaker in an incessant conflict for survivorship, which would persist with the certainty and constancy of a law of nature, compromise acts by Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.

Archibald Henry Grimké - Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States: The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12