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And that theory differs in nothing from outright European Aristocracy, save in the forms and instruments by which it works.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Beecher critiques the political theory in the South, comparing it to European aristocracy while highlighting its distinct methods.
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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!
Having once given forth this spirit of liberty, now fading out of our Southern States, the North should again come forth and refill the poisoned veins that have been drinking the hemlock of Despotism with the new blood of Liberty!
If the North gives to the Nation her radical principles of human rights and democratic Governments, there will be the peace of an immeasurable prosperity.