Henry Ward Beecher: “There is something of God in the meanest creature.”

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.

The whole chance of Right, and the whole theory of Liberty, springs from that part of man that lies beyond this life.

And so great are the achievements of labor that everybody honors it.

And now it has come to pass that, in the good providence of God, another opportunity has been presented to the whole North to reassert her place and her influence, and to fill the institutions of our country with their original and proper…