Henry Ward Beecher: “The presumption is always against a man who does not labor.”

Authority would go with productive greatness, as gravity goes with mass in matter.

Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.

Mariners might as well blame you for the swing and toss of their craft when tides troop in or march out of your harbor, as us, for heaving to that tide which God swells under us.

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…