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

Mariners might as well blame you for the swing and toss of their craft when tides troop in or march out of your harbor, as us, for heaving to that tide which God swells under us.

New-England first formed those institutions which liberty requires for beneficient activity; and from her, both before and since the Revolution, they have been copied throughout the Land.

THAT is the ONLY question, in our day and in our community, full of vital struggles turning upon fundamental principles.

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