Henry Ward Beecher: “It is ranking oneself with a slave by doing a slave's tasks; as eating a beggar's crust with him would be a beggar's…”

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 fifty years the imperious spirit of the South has sought and gained power.

Authority would go with productive greatness, as gravity goes with mass in matter.

Mariners might as well blame you for the swing and toss of their craft when tides troop in or march out of your harbor, as us, for heaving to that tide which God swells under us.