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But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.”
Editor's note · Context
He predicts that the North will become ineffective in the national context if certain struggles are lost.
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