Henry Ward Beecher: “If a National American party is ever formed, by leaving out the whole…”

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If a National American party is ever formed, by leaving out the whole question of Human Rights, it will be what a man would be--his soul left out!

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher warns that a national party ignoring human rights would lack true essence and purpose.

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She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.

But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.

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

Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.

Henry Ward Beecher: “If a National American party is ever formed, by leaving out the whole question of Human Rights, it will be what a man…”