Having once given forth this spirit of liberty, now fading out of our Southern States, the North should again come forth and refill the poisoned veins that have been drinking the hemlock of Despotism with the new blood of Liberty!
Beecher calls for the North to rejuvenate the spirit of liberty in the South, which he sees as fading.
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