Henry Ward Beecher: “By making man important in the sight of God, he becomes sacred to his fellow.”

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.

For the last fifty years, upon the national platform have stood arrayed two champions in mortal antagonism--New-England and the near North--representing personal freedom, civil liberty, universal education, and a religious spirit which…

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

It is not a permission of law; it is the inherent right of the individual.