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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If the North gives to the Nation her radical principles of human rights and democratic Governments, there will be the peace of an immeasurable prosperity.
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!
Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!
Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.