Henry Ward Beecher: “Yea, read those doctrines on Bunker Hill--and would it flame or quake?”

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

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

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.

Dying, we will leave it a legacy to our children, and they shall will it to theirs, until the work is done, our fathers' prayers are answered, and this whole land stands clothed and in its right mind--a symbol of what the earthly fruits of…