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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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If the South shall give to the country a policy derived from her heathen notions of men, there will be such a peace as men have overdrugged with opium, that deep lethargy just before the mortal convulsions and death!
All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.
And if by an insane blindness you shall contrive to put off the issue, and send this unsettled dispute down to your children, it will go down, gathering volume and strength at every step, to waste and desolate their heritage.
Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.