Henry Ward Beecher: “She has not yet told this Continent all that is in her heart.”

Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.

It is not a permission of law; it is the inherent right of the individual.

It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.

I am quite aware that the subject of Slavery has been regarded, by many, as sectional; and the agitation of it in the North needless, and injurious to our peace and the country's welfare.