Henry Ward Beecher: “Men are judged there not by what they are and are to be, but by what they can now do.”

And so great are the achievements of labor that everybody honors it.

Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.

The questions which have provoked discussion among us for fifty years past have not been questions of fundamental principles, but of the application of principles already ascertained.

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.