Henry Ward Beecher: “They live in a crater, forever dreading the signs of activity.”

Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.

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.

If the North gives to the Nation her radical principles of human rights and democratic Governments, there will be the peace of an immeasurable prosperity.

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