Henry Ward Beecher: “In such a Society, there cannot be a Common School, in any such sense as we mean it.”

New-England first formed those institutions which liberty requires for beneficient activity; and from her, both before and since the Revolution, they have been copied throughout the Land.

They did not know enough of his origin, his nature, or his destiny, to bring these into account, in estimating man.

And now it has come to pass that, in the good providence of God, another opportunity has been presented to the whole North to reassert her place and her influence, and to fill the institutions of our country with their original and proper…

She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.