Henry Ward Beecher: “The North has one theory, the South another; which of them is to be called the American idea?”

The conflict which is going on springs from causes as deep as the foundations of our institutions.

She has not yet told this Continent all that is in her heart.

I am quite aware that the subject of Slavery has been regarded, by many, as sectional; and the agitation of it in the North needless, and injurious to our peace and the country's welfare.

She has sat down like Bunyan's Pilgrim, and slept in the bower by the way, and where she slept she has left her roll--God grant that she hath not lost it there while she slumbered!