Henry Ward Beecher: “All that a class means in the North is, that when men have shown…”

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All that a class means in the North is, that when men have shown themselves strong and wise men give them honor for it.

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher explains that in the North, class distinctions are based on recognition of strength and wisdom rather than privilege.

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She has not yet told this Continent all that is in her heart.

The conflict which is going on springs from causes as deep as the foundations of our institutions.

There have been, from the earliest period of the world, two different, and oppugnant, doctrines of man--his place, rights, duties and relations.

If he must stand by what he is, how surely must he be given over to weakness, to abuse, to oppressions.

Henry Ward Beecher: “All that a class means in the North is, that when men have shown themselves strong and wise men give them honor for it.”