Henry Ward Beecher: “There are southern men with northern consciences, and there are northern men with southern consciences.”

Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.

The New-England theory of Government has always been in its element--first, independent men; then democratic townships; next republican States, and, in the end, a Federated Union of Republican States.

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

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