Henry Ward Beecher: “It has been honorable to dig, to hew, to build, to reap, to wield the hammer at the forge, and the saw at the bench.”

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

The questions which have provoked discussion among us for fifty years past have not been questions of fundamental principles, but of the application of principles already ascertained.

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.