That which declares the right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--or that which declares the right of strength and intelligence to subordinate weakness and ignorance?
Beecher contrasts the rights of individuals with the oppression of the weak by the strong.
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She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.
The whole chance of Right, and the whole theory of Liberty, springs from that part of man that lies beyond this life.
She has not yet told this Continent all that is in her heart.
But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.