Henry Ward Beecher: “Old New-England, that suckled American liberty, is now suckling wolves to devour it.”

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.

Right would be a word as much out of place as among birds and beasts.

Is it my excited ear that hears an airy phantasm whispering? or do I hear a solemn voice crying out, "Arise?

Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.