Henry Ward Beecher: “All that a class means in the North is, that when men have shown themselves strong and wise men give them honor for it.”

And if by an insane blindness you shall contrive to put off the issue, and send this unsettled dispute down to your children, it will go down, gathering volume and strength at every step, to waste and desolate their heritage.

If the North gives to the Nation her radical principles of human rights and democratic Governments, there will be the peace of an immeasurable prosperity.

Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.

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