Here is a society organized, not on an idea of equal rights, and of inequalities only as they spring from difference of worth, but on an idea of permanent, political, organized inequality among men.
Beecher points out that the societal structure is based on organized inequality rather than equal rights.
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The conflict which is going on springs from causes as deep as the foundations of our institutions.
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.
I am quite aware that the subject of Slavery has been regarded, by many, as sectional; and the agitation of it in the North needless, and injurious to our peace and the country's welfare.
It is not a permission of law; it is the inherent right of the individual.