Henry Ward Beecher: “A King that cannot keep his seat before free speech ought to be…”

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A King that cannot keep his seat before free speech ought to be unseated.

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher believes that a king who cannot withstand free speech should be removed from power.

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It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.

Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.

Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.

But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.

Henry Ward Beecher: “A King that cannot keep his seat before free speech ought to be unseated.”