Henry Ward Beecher: “The same air comes to each, the same showers, the same seasons, summer and winter.”

In this respect, there would be a marked contrast between the subjects which occupy us, and the grander life-themes that dignify European thought, were it not for one subject--Slavery.

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.

Is it my excited ear that hears an airy phantasm whispering? or do I hear a solemn voice crying out, "Arise?

It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.