Henry Ward Beecher: “The conflict which is going on springs from causes as deep as the foundations of our institutions.”

Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!

And if by an insane blindness you shall contrive to put off the issue, and send this unsettled dispute down to your children, it will go down, gathering volume and strength at every step, to waste and desolate their heritage.

These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.

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!