It is the northern sentiment that a man must be prepared for liberty, and that the act of birth is that preparation; that no creature lives which is the better for oppression, and who will not be the better for freedom, which is the natural air appointed for the soul's breathing.
Beecher asserts that the act of being born prepares individuals for liberty, which is essential for their well-being.
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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.
The conflict which is going on springs from causes as deep as the foundations of our institutions.
Right would be a word as much out of place as among birds and beasts.
Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.