Henry Ward Beecher: “We ordain that a man shall have the fullest chance, and then he shall have the results of his activity.”

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…

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

But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.

The questions which have provoked discussion among us for fifty years past have not been questions of fundamental principles, but of the application of principles already ascertained.