Henry Ward Beecher: “It would stand in silent majesty, pointing its granite finger up to Heaven and to God--an everlasting witness against…”

Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.

The whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.

And the theory of man is always the starting point of all other theories, systems, and Governments which divide the world.

If he must stand by what he is, how surely must he be given over to weakness, to abuse, to oppressions.