Henry Ward Beecher: “It carries the sceptre, and changes all nations by its touch, opening its treasures and disclosing its secrets.”

I am quite aware that the subject of Slavery has been regarded, by many, as sectional; and the agitation of it in the North needless, and injurious to our peace and the country's welfare.

Outside of a Divine and Authoritative Revelation, men have had but one way of estimating the value of man.

But I think that God sent New-England to these shores as his own messenger of mercy to days and ages, that have yet far to come ere they are born!

If the power of producing effects is the criterion of value, the few will always be the most valuable, and the mass relatively, subordinate, and the weak and lowest will be left helplessly worthless.