Henry Ward Beecher: “It may live to ravage our heritage for a few days, but there is a spirit of liberty that lives among us, and that shall…”

But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.

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.

For the last fifty years, upon the national platform have stood arrayed two champions in mortal antagonism--New-England and the near North--representing personal freedom, civil liberty, universal education, and a religious spirit which…

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