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

These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.

An infernal Juno, envious of the destined greatness of this country, hath sent this serpent upon it!

Dying, we will leave it a legacy to our children, and they shall will it to theirs, until the work is done, our fathers' prayers are answered, and this whole land stands clothed and in its right mind--a symbol of what the earthly fruits of…

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.