Henry Ward Beecher: “Only such things as have an echo in them, that reverberate in the ear of public opinion, that produce an effect of…”

These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.

Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.

If the South shall give to the country a policy derived from her heathen notions of men, there will be such a peace as men have overdrugged with opium, that deep lethargy just before the mortal convulsions and death!

And aroused by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of men that have not bowed the knee to Baal--and we will war it to the knife, and knife to the hilt.