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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.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Beecher acknowledges that while American topics may seem less grand, the issue of slavery elevates their significance.
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And aroused by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of men that have not bowed the knee to Baal--and we will war it to the knife, and knife to the hilt.
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!
Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!
Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.