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 always sympathises with men more than with Governments.
Beecher describes the ideological conflict between New England and the North, representing freedom and education against opposing forces.
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If the South shall give to the country a policy derived from her heathen notions of men, there will be such a peace as men have overdrugged with opium, that deep lethargy just before the mortal convulsions and death!
These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.
An infernal Juno, envious of the destined greatness of this country, hath sent this serpent upon it!
Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.