Henry Ward Beecher: “Authority would go with productive greatness, as gravity goes with mass in matter.”

The South, the truest representation of Absolutism under republican forms, is mightier in our National Councils and Policy to-day than New-England, the mother and representative of true republicanism and the whole free North.

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

It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.

Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.