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

And aroused by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of men that have not bowed the knee to Baal--and we will war it to the knife, and knife to the hilt.

Dying, we will leave it a legacy to our children, and they shall will it to theirs, until the work is done, our fathers' prayers are answered, and this whole land stands clothed and in its right mind--a symbol of what the earthly fruits of…

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

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.