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

If the power of producing effects is the criterion of value, the few will always be the most valuable, and the mass relatively, subordinate, and the weak and lowest will be left helplessly worthless.

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

But I think that God sent New-England to these shores as his own messenger of mercy to days and ages, that have yet far to come ere they are born!

Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.