Henry Ward Beecher: “By making man important in the sight of God, he becomes sacred to his fellow.”

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.

But New-England was not raised up by Divine Providence to play a mean part in the world's affairs.

For fifty years the imperious spirit of the South has sought and gained power.

Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.