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It is very plain that while nominally republican institutions exist in both the North and South, they are animated by a very different spirit, and used for a different purpose.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Beecher critiques the differing spirits animating the political institutions of the North and South.
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Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.
There is a noticeable contrast between Northern and Southern ideas of Religion.
In this respect, there would be a marked contrast between the subjects which occupy us, and the grander life-themes that dignify European thought, were it not for one subject--Slavery.
But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.