Henry Ward Beecher: “Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.”

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

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.

It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.

There have been, from the earliest period of the world, two different, and oppugnant, doctrines of man--his place, rights, duties and relations.