And nowhere else in the world is the penalty of indolence, and even of shiftlessness, so terrible as in the North, as nowhere else is the remuneration of a virtuous industry so ample and so widely diffused.
Beecher contrasts the harsh penalties for laziness in the North with the rewards for industriousness, highlighting the region's values.
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Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!
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!
An infernal Juno, envious of the destined greatness of this country, hath sent this serpent upon it!
And aroused by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of men that have not bowed the knee to Baal--and we will war it to the knife, and knife to the hilt.