Henry Ward Beecher: “An infernal Juno, envious of the destined greatness of this country, hath sent this serpent upon it!”

New-England first formed those institutions which liberty requires for beneficient activity; and from her, both before and since the Revolution, they have been copied throughout the Land.

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

She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.

If he must stand by what he is, how surely must he be given over to weakness, to abuse, to oppressions.