Henry Ward Beecher: “It carries the sceptre, and changes all nations by its touch, opening its treasures and disclosing its secrets.”

There have been, from the earliest period of the world, two different, and oppugnant, doctrines of man--his place, rights, duties and relations.

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

Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.

It is not a permission of law; it is the inherent right of the individual.