Henry Ward Beecher: “These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.”

Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!

And if by an insane blindness you shall contrive to put off the issue, and send this unsettled dispute down to your children, it will go down, gathering volume and strength at every step, to waste and desolate their heritage.

All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.

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.