There these antagonistic principles, which creep with subtle influence through the very veins of their respective States, break out into open collision upon every question of national policy.
Beecher notes that conflicting principles lead to open clashes on national policy issues.
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Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.
Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.
New-England first formed those institutions which liberty requires for beneficient activity; and from her, both before and since the Revolution, they have been copied throughout the Land.
She has not yet told this Continent all that is in her heart.