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

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.

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

And if by an insane blindness you shall contrive to put off the issue, and send this unsettled dispute down to your children, it will go down, gathering volume and strength at every step, to waste and desolate their heritage.

All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.