We must deepen our thinkings of man, and bore for the springs of liberty far below the drainings of surface strata, down deep, Artesian, till we strike something that shall be beyond winter or summer, frost or drouth.
Beecher advocates for a deeper understanding of human liberty that transcends superficial beliefs.
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It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.
But New-England was not raised up by Divine Providence to play a mean part in the world's affairs.
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.
She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.