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Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.
Said by
Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.”
Editor's note · Context
Beecher asserts that for peace to exist, Northern and Southern ideas must be reconciled within the American context.
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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!
An infernal Juno, envious of the destined greatness of this country, hath sent this serpent upon it!
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.
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!