Henry Ward Beecher: “There is a noticeable contrast between Northern and Southern ideas of Religion.”

The conflict which is going on springs from causes as deep as the foundations of our institutions.

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

It is not a permission of law; it is the inherent right of the individual.

The South, the truest representation of Absolutism under republican forms, is mightier in our National Councils and Policy to-day than New-England, the mother and representative of true republicanism and the whole free North.