Dying, we will leave it a legacy to our children, and they shall will it to theirs, until the work is done, our fathers' prayers are answered, and this whole land stands clothed and in its right mind--a symbol of what the earthly fruits of the Gospel are!
Beecher emphasizes the enduring legacy of liberty and the Gospel's impact on society.
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New-England first formed those institutions which liberty requires for beneficient activity; and from her, both before and since the Revolution, they have been copied throughout the Land.
Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.
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.
Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.