Henry Ward Beecher: “Wealth, experience, ability set men above their fellows.”

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

It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.

And this is the reason why a free, unobstructed Bible always works toward human rights.

New-England first formed those institutions which liberty requires for beneficient activity; and from her, both before and since the Revolution, they have been copied throughout the Land.