Henry Ward Beecher: “The seat of empire may be indifferently on the Massachusetts Bay or the Ohio, on the Lakes or on the Gulf; if it be the…”

It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.

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.

There have been, from the earliest period of the world, two different, and oppugnant, doctrines of man--his place, rights, duties and relations.

The South, the truest representation of Absolutism under republican forms, is mightier in our National Councils and Policy to-day than New-England, the mother and representative of true republicanism and the whole free North.