The North believe that personal and political liberty are not only rights of man, but their necessity, that man cannot thrive nor develop, with the true proportions of manhood, without liberty.
Beecher argues that personal and political liberty are essential for human development and well-being.
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But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.
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…
For fifty years the imperious spirit of the South has sought and gained power.
And this is the reason why a free, unobstructed Bible always works toward human rights.