Henry Ward Beecher: “Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North…”

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.

An infernal Juno, envious of the destined greatness of this country, hath sent this serpent upon it!

Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!

Dying, we will leave it a legacy to our children, and they shall will it to theirs, until the work is done, our fathers' prayers are answered, and this whole land stands clothed and in its right mind--a symbol of what the earthly fruits of…