Henry Ward Beecher: “Who shall trifle with such a creature, full bound upon such an errand through life, and swelling forth to such a…”

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

Having once given forth this spirit of liberty, now fading out of our Southern States, the North should again come forth and refill the poisoned veins that have been drinking the hemlock of Despotism with the new blood of Liberty!

And aroused by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of men that have not bowed the knee to Baal--and we will war it to the knife, and knife to the hilt.

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