Henry Ward Beecher: “And both tendencies spring from the root of opposite theories of men and notions of society.”

And this is the reason why a free, unobstructed Bible always works toward human rights.

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 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.

But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.