Henry Ward Beecher: “If the South would be revolutionized by free discussion, how intensely does that fact show her dying need of revolution!”

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

The New-England theory of Government has always been in its element--first, independent men; then democratic townships; next republican States, and, in the end, a Federated Union of Republican States.

THAT is the ONLY question, in our day and in our community, full of vital struggles turning upon fundamental principles.

She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.