It is the northern sentiment that a man must be prepared for liberty, and that the act of birth is that preparation; that no creature lives which is the better for oppression, and who will not be the better for freedom, which is the natural air appointed for the soul's breathing.
Beecher asserts that the act of being born prepares individuals for liberty, which is essential for their well-being.
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All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.
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.
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.