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

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

New-England first formed those institutions which liberty requires for beneficient activity; and from her, both before and since the Revolution, they have been copied throughout the Land.

But New-England was not raised up by Divine Providence to play a mean part in the world's affairs.

The whole chance of Right, and the whole theory of Liberty, springs from that part of man that lies beyond this life.