Henry Ward Beecher: “They did not know enough of his origin, his nature, or his destiny, to bring these into account, in estimating man.”

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…

She has sat down like Bunyan's Pilgrim, and slept in the bower by the way, and where she slept she has left her roll--God grant that she hath not lost it there while she slumbered!

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.