It is equally plain that while there may be a union between Northern and Southern States, it is external, or commercial, and not internal and vital, springing from common ideas, common ends, and common sympathies.
Beecher argues that the union between North and South is superficial and lacks deep ideological connections.
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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.
Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.
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