Henry Ward Beecher: “It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.”

But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.

For the last fifty years, upon the national platform have stood arrayed two champions in mortal antagonism--New-England and the near North--representing personal freedom, civil liberty, universal education, and a religious spirit which…

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.

And this is the reason why a free, unobstructed Bible always works toward human rights.