Henry Ward Beecher: “Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.”

Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.

Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.

But I think that God sent New-England to these shores as his own messenger of mercy to days and ages, that have yet far to come ere they are born!

The whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.