Henry Ward Beecher: “It is a perpetual education of the people, and a safeguard to the State.”

It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.

There have been, from the earliest period of the world, two different, and oppugnant, doctrines of man--his place, rights, duties and relations.

In this respect, there would be a marked contrast between the subjects which occupy us, and the grander life-themes that dignify European thought, were it not for one subject--Slavery.

Outside of a Divine and Authoritative Revelation, men have had but one way of estimating the value of man.