Henry Ward Beecher: “It has been honorable because our people have been taught that each man is set to make the most of himself.”

The questions which have provoked discussion among us for fifty years past have not been questions of fundamental principles, but of the application of principles already ascertained.

Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.

THAT is the ONLY question, in our day and in our community, full of vital struggles turning upon fundamental principles.

For fifty years the imperious spirit of the South has sought and gained power.