Henry Ward Beecher: “There is a noticeable contrast between Northern and Southern ideas of Religion.”

And if by an insane blindness you shall contrive to put off the issue, and send this unsettled dispute down to your children, it will go down, gathering volume and strength at every step, to waste and desolate their heritage.

Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.

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

Dying, we will leave it a legacy to our children, and they shall will it to theirs, until the work is done, our fathers' prayers are answered, and this whole land stands clothed and in its right mind--a symbol of what the earthly fruits of…