The New-England theory of Government has always been in its element--first, independent men; then democratic townships; next republican States, and, in the end, a Federated Union of Republican States.
Beecher outlines the evolution of the New England theory of government from independent men to a federated union.
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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!
Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.
And now it has come to pass that, in the good providence of God, another opportunity has been presented to the whole North to reassert her place and her influence, and to fill the institutions of our country with their original and proper…
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