Henry Ward Beecher: “All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.”

Mariners might as well blame you for the swing and toss of their craft when tides troop in or march out of your harbor, as us, for heaving to that tide which God swells under us.

They did not know enough of his origin, his nature, or his destiny, to bring these into account, in estimating man.

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.

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