On the record
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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gutenberg.orgIt 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.
Beecher critiques the differing spirits animating the political institutions of the North and South.
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