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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