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.
Beecher contrasts the might of the South, representing Absolutism, with New England's legacy of republicanism.
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She has sat down like Bunyan's Pilgrim, and slept in the bower by the way, and where she slept she has left her roll--God grant that she hath not lost it there while she slumbered!
The whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.
Authority would go with productive greatness, as gravity goes with mass in matter.
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.