Henry Ward Beecher: “With us, it is expected that every man will work, will earn, will lay up, will deliver his family from public charity.”

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

Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!

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.

Having once given forth this spirit of liberty, now fading out of our Southern States, the North should again come forth and refill the poisoned veins that have been drinking the hemlock of Despotism with the new blood of Liberty!