Henry Ward Beecher: “Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North…”

She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.

But New-England was not raised up by Divine Providence to play a mean part in the world's affairs.

For the last fifty years, upon the national platform have stood arrayed two champions in mortal antagonism--New-England and the near North--representing personal freedom, civil liberty, universal education, and a religious spirit which…

There have been, from the earliest period of the world, two different, and oppugnant, doctrines of man--his place, rights, duties and relations.