Henry Ward Beecher: “A man is not blemished by deeds and indulgencies, upon a plantation, among slaves, which in the North, would strike him…”

And so great are the achievements of labor that everybody honors it.

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.

The South, the truest representation of Absolutism under republican forms, is mightier in our National Councils and Policy to-day than New-England, the mother and representative of true republicanism and the whole free North.

Outside of a Divine and Authoritative Revelation, men have had but one way of estimating the value of man.