Henry Ward Beecher: “It has been honorable to dig, to hew, to build, to reap, to wield the hammer at the forge, and the saw at the bench.”

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

New-England first formed those institutions which liberty requires for beneficient activity; and from her, both before and since the Revolution, they have been copied throughout the Land.

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.

It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.