Henry Ward Beecher: “The restrictions which keep it from the slave will keep it from the whites, excepting, always, the few who live at the…”

The whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.

The questions which have provoked discussion among us for fifty years past have not been questions of fundamental principles, but of the application of principles already ascertained.

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.

The South, the truest representation of Absolutism under republican forms, is mightier in our National Councils and Policy to-day than New-England, the mother and representative of true republicanism and the whole free North.