Henry Ward Beecher: “A net spread for those guilty of such wrongs against man, would catch States, and Legislatures, Citizens, Courts, and…”

It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.

The conflict which is going on springs from causes as deep as the foundations of our institutions.

Is it my excited ear that hears an airy phantasm whispering? or do I hear a solemn voice crying out, "Arise?

And now it has come to pass that, in the good providence of God, another opportunity has been presented to the whole North to reassert her place and her influence, and to fill the institutions of our country with their original and proper…