Henry Ward Beecher: “There are three classes--the top, the middle, and the bottom; and two of these, the top and bottom, being fixed and…”

And aroused by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of men that have not bowed the knee to Baal--and we will war it to the knife, and knife to the hilt.

Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.

If the North gives to the Nation her radical principles of human rights and democratic Governments, there will be the peace of an immeasurable prosperity.

All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.