Henry Ward Beecher: “All the benefits that have accrued to man from Christianity, are appropriated and monopolized by the white population.”

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.

There is a noticeable contrast between Northern and Southern ideas of Religion.

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…

Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.