Henry Ward Beecher: “And the theory of man is always the starting point of all other theories, systems, and Governments which divide the…”

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

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.

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.

Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.