Henry Ward Beecher: “Cruelty, chastity, virtue, do not mean the same things in the South as…”

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Cruelty, chastity, virtue, do not mean the same things in the South as in the North.

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Henry Ward Beecher

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This statement reflects the differing moral interpretations of virtue and cruelty between the North and South.

More from Henry Ward Beecher

All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.

Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.

These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.

Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!

Henry Ward Beecher: “Cruelty, chastity, virtue, do not mean the same things in the South as in the North.”