If then, a party is American, ought it not to be because it represents those principles which are fundamental to American Institutions and to American policy? principles which stand in contrast with European Institutions and policy!
Beecher argues that an American party should embody fundamental American principles rather than European ones.
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Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.
Is it my excited ear that hears an airy phantasm whispering? or do I hear a solemn voice crying out, "Arise?
But New-England was not raised up by Divine Providence to play a mean part in the world's affairs.
The whole chance of Right, and the whole theory of Liberty, springs from that part of man that lies beyond this life.