Henry Ward Beecher: “Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.”

And aroused by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of men that have not bowed the knee to Baal--and we will war it to the knife, and knife to the hilt.

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

Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.

These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.