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.

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Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.

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