Henry Ward Beecher: “For fifty years the imperious spirit of the South has sought and gained power.”

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…

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.

An infernal Juno, envious of the destined greatness of this country, hath sent this serpent upon it!