Henry Ward Beecher: “He is in life for cultivation, not exhibition; he is here chiefly to be acted on, not to be characteristically an agent.”

Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.

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

THAT is the ONLY question, in our day and in our community, full of vital struggles turning upon fundamental principles.

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