Henry Ward Beecher: “With us, it is expected that every man will work, will earn, will lay up, will deliver his family from public charity.”

Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.

The whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.

For fifty years the imperious spirit of the South has sought and gained power.

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.