Henry Ward Beecher: “Mariners might as well blame you for the swing and toss of their craft when tides troop in or march out of your harbor…”

She has sat down like Bunyan's Pilgrim, and slept in the bower by the way, and where she slept she has left her roll--God grant that she hath not lost it there while she slumbered!

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.

And this is the reason why a free, unobstructed Bible always works toward human rights.

Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.