Henry Ward Beecher: “A King that cannot keep his seat before free speech ought to be unseated.”

I am quite aware that the subject of Slavery has been regarded, by many, as sectional; and the agitation of it in the North needless, and injurious to our peace and the country's welfare.

They did not know enough of his origin, his nature, or his destiny, to bring these into account, in estimating man.

Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.

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