Henry Ward Beecher: “There is something of God in the meanest creature.”

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

Authority would go with productive greatness, as gravity goes with mass in matter.

She has not yet told this Continent all that is in her heart.

For the last fifty years, upon the national platform have stood arrayed two champions in mortal antagonism--New-England and the near North--representing personal freedom, civil liberty, universal education, and a religious spirit which…