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

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

It is not a permission of law; it is the inherent right of the individual.

Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.

In this respect, there would be a marked contrast between the subjects which occupy us, and the grander life-themes that dignify European thought, were it not for one subject--Slavery.