Henry Ward Beecher: “It inspires labor by hope of fruition, and intensifies it by the fear of non-fruition.”

For fifty years the imperious spirit of the South has sought and gained power.

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

For the last fifty years, upon the national platform have stood arrayed two champions in mortal antagonism--New-England and the near North--representing personal freedom, civil liberty, universal education, and a religious spirit which…

Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.