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Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.”
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Beecher asserts the North's responsibility to uphold the ideas and institutions it has contributed to America.
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