Henry Ward Beecher: “He, then, that judges man by what he can do, judges him in the seed.”

For fifty years the imperious spirit of the South has sought and gained power.

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.

Right would be a word as much out of place as among birds and beasts.

I am quite aware that the subject of Slavery has been regarded, by many, as sectional; and the agitation of it in the North needless, and injurious to our peace and the country's welfare.