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Read that book in Faneuil Hall, and a thousand aroused and indignant ghosts would come flocking there, as if they heard the old roll-call of Bunker Hill.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Beecher evokes the spirit of American revolutionary history to inspire action against injustice.
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Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.
Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.
All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.
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.