Henry Ward Beecher: “We challenge the whole world of ideas, and the great deep of human interests to come up upon anything that belongs, or…”

All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.

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!

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

Dying, we will leave it a legacy to our children, and they shall will it to theirs, until the work is done, our fathers' prayers are answered, and this whole land stands clothed and in its right mind--a symbol of what the earthly fruits of…