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Henry Ward Beecher: It is very plain that while nominally republican institutions exist in both the North and South, they are animated by a…

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It is very plain that while nominally republican institutions exist in both the North and South, they are animated by a very different spirit, and used for a different purpose.
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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher critiques the differing spirits animating the political institutions of the North and South.

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