Henry Ward Beecher: “The race is a brotherhood; God is the Father, Love is the law of this great human commonwealth, and Love knows no…”

And this is the reason why a free, unobstructed Bible always works toward human rights.

But New-England was not raised up by Divine Providence to play a mean part in the world's affairs.

She has sat down like Bunyan's Pilgrim, and slept in the bower by the way, and where she slept she has left her roll--God grant that she hath not lost it there while she slumbered!

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.