Henry Ward Beecher: “But I ask you, fellow-citizens, whether the simple accident of birth is a basis broad enough for a permanent National…”

All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.

These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.

Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.

If the North gives to the Nation her radical principles of human rights and democratic Governments, there will be the peace of an immeasurable prosperity.