Henry Ward Beecher: “She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.”

And the theory of man is always the starting point of all other theories, systems, and Governments which divide the world.

In this respect, there would be a marked contrast between the subjects which occupy us, and the grander life-themes that dignify European thought, were it not for one subject--Slavery.

The questions which have provoked discussion among us for fifty years past have not been questions of fundamental principles, but of the application of principles already ascertained.

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.