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“Property alone found voice; Labor, aghast, awaited developments. Some regarded it as the opening of a new struggle between these two classes, which were now clearly seem to have a defined and divergent existence. Capital and Labor were asserted to be pitted against each other in a new ‘irrepressible conflict’. Others, alarmed at the danger to vested rights and existing social conditions, with equal impetuosity, and want of logic, fell back on the law and demanded extreme measures of repression; a reign of terror set in. Property trembled for its existence before a phantom; every way-side bush seemed a secret danger; fear paralyzed reason, and force—arbitrary and illegal—held full sway.”
- Dyer D. Lum, Preface to A Concise History of the Great Trial of the Chicago Anarchists in 1886, 1866 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)