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 always sympathises with men more than with Governments.
Beecher describes the ideological conflict between New England and the North, representing freedom and education against opposing forces.
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It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.
She has not yet told this Continent all that is in her heart.
But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.
The whole chance of Right, and the whole theory of Liberty, springs from that part of man that lies beyond this life.