Henry Ward Beecher: “For nothing is more tenacious than schoolday remembrances, and the last things that we forget are playmates and…”

Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.

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!

These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.

All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.