Henry Ward Beecher: “Touch a hireling's wages, in the North, and the Law stands to defend him and beat you down!”

Is it my excited ear that hears an airy phantasm whispering? or do I hear a solemn voice crying out, "Arise?

The New-England theory of Government has always been in its element--first, independent men; then democratic townships; next republican States, and, in the end, a Federated Union of Republican States.

Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.

And the theory of man is always the starting point of all other theories, systems, and Governments which divide the world.