We ordain that a man shall have the fullest chance, and then he shall have the results of his activity.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. His rhetorical focus on the love of Christ has influenced mainstream Christianity through the 21st century.
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Work, in the North, has responsibilities that are prodigious educators.
Neither can they understand how a man who works all his life long can be high-minded and generous, intelligent and refined.
They are working men, and work is flavored to the Southerner with ideas of ignominy, of meanness, of vulgar lowness.
To take away a planter's slaves is to cut off his hands.
Laziness in the South and money in the North, are the bulwarks of Slavery!
And it is this innate, hereditary indisposition to work that, after all, is the greatest obstacle to emancipation.
And both tendencies spring from the root of opposite theories of men and notions of society.
The North tends to doing--the South to appearing.
In the North, men are educated to be something--in the South to seem something.
Only such things as have an echo in them, that reverberate in the ear of public opinion, that produce an effect of notice, honor, advancement in the OPINIONS of men, are relished.
Men are judged there not by what they are and are to be, but by what they can now do.