Henry Ward Beecher: “If the South would be revolutionized by free discussion, how intensely…”

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If the South would be revolutionized by free discussion, how intensely does that fact show her dying need of revolution!

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher argues that the South's resistance to free discussion highlights its urgent need for change.

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The conflict which is going on springs from causes as deep as the foundations of our institutions.

It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.

If he must stand by what he is, how surely must he be given over to weakness, to abuse, to oppressions.

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

Henry Ward Beecher: “If the South would be revolutionized by free discussion, how intensely does that fact show her dying need of revolution!”