Henry Ward Beecher: “I do not believe that there is a doctrine of individual rights nor of civil liberty that can stand outside of…”

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

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.

If the South shall give to the country a policy derived from her heathen notions of men, there will be such a peace as men have overdrugged with opium, that deep lethargy just before the mortal convulsions and death!

Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.