Henry Ward Beecher: “That which protects the dwelling and the property of the rich man, belongs just as much to the hovel of the beggar.”

And this is the reason why a free, unobstructed Bible always works toward human rights.

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…

The South, the truest representation of Absolutism under republican forms, is mightier in our National Councils and Policy to-day than New-England, the mother and representative of true republicanism and the whole free North.

Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.