Henry Ward Beecher: “Beat a man, in the North, for a private wrong done, and the law will strike you.”

They did not know enough of his origin, his nature, or his destiny, to bring these into account, in estimating man.

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…

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.

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