Henry Ward Beecher: “It is the Future that gives value to the Present.”

The questions which have provoked discussion among us for fifty years past have not been questions of fundamental principles, but of the application of principles already ascertained.

If he must stand by what he is, how surely must he be given over to weakness, to abuse, to oppressions.

But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.

I am quite aware that the subject of Slavery has been regarded, by many, as sectional; and the agitation of it in the North needless, and injurious to our peace and the country's welfare.