Henry Ward Beecher: “Now tell me whether there is any preaching of the Gospel to the slave, or whether there can be, and he yet remain a…”

An infernal Juno, envious of the destined greatness of this country, hath sent this serpent upon it!

And aroused by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of men that have not bowed the knee to Baal--and we will war it to the knife, and knife to the hilt.

All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.

If the South shall give to the country a policy derived from her heathen notions of men, there will be such a peace as men have overdrugged with opium, that deep lethargy just before the mortal convulsions and death!