Henry Ward Beecher: “It may live to ravage our heritage for a few days, but there is a spirit of liberty that lives among us, and that shall…”

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

She has sat down like Bunyan's Pilgrim, and slept in the bower by the way, and where she slept she has left her roll--God grant that she hath not lost it there while she slumbered!

And now it has come to pass that, in the good providence of God, another opportunity has been presented to the whole North to reassert her place and her influence, and to fill the institutions of our country with their original and proper…

They did not know enough of his origin, his nature, or his destiny, to bring these into account, in estimating man.