Henry Ward Beecher: “Once declare in New York that Government would take care of poverty and old age, so as to make it honorable, and it…”

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

But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.

I am quite aware that the subject of Slavery has been regarded, by many, as sectional; and the agitation of it in the North needless, and injurious to our peace and the country's welfare.

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