Henry Ward Beecher: “That which declares all men free &c., or that which declares the superior races free, and the inferior, Slaves?”

Mariners might as well blame you for the swing and toss of their craft when tides troop in or march out of your harbor, as us, for heaving to that tide which God swells under us.

But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.

Authority would go with productive greatness, as gravity goes with mass in matter.

New-England first formed those institutions which liberty requires for beneficient activity; and from her, both before and since the Revolution, they have been copied throughout the Land.