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

Outside of a Divine and Authoritative Revelation, men have had but one way of estimating the value of man.

For fifty years the imperious spirit of the South has sought and gained power.

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.

If he must stand by what he is, how surely must he be given over to weakness, to abuse, to oppressions.