Henry Ward Beecher: “Only such things as have an echo in them, that reverberate in the ear of public opinion, that produce an effect of…”

Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.

And now it has come to pass that, in the good providence of God, another opportunity has been presented to the whole North to reassert her place and her influence, and to fill the institutions of our country with their original and proper…

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

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.