Henry Ward Beecher: “If a National American party is ever formed, by leaving out the whole question of Human Rights, it will be what a man…”

And now it has come to pass that, in the good providence of God, another opportunity has been presented to the whole North to reassert her place and her influence, and to fill the institutions of our country with their original and proper…

It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.

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

The whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.