Henry Ward Beecher: “Knowledge is power, not only, but powder, putting the South in the risk of being blown up, by careless handling and too…”

But I think that God sent New-England to these shores as his own messenger of mercy to days and ages, that have yet far to come ere they are born!

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.

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

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.