From Lincoln's first annual message to Congress:
That sounds like Young Marx.
That was just my thoughts. He seems to be espousing some form of the labor theory of value (joining ranks with Smith and Ricardo among others) rather than going on some nonsense tirade against then non-existent income taxation (the first progressive income tax in the United States was, in fact, enacted by the Lincoln administration during his first two years in office) or the even more fantastic notion of the 19th century welfare state.
