Never was an opening so auspicious for a true American party that, embracing the principles of American institutions, should enter our Temple of Liberty and drive out thence not merely the interloping Gentiles, but the money-changers, and those, also, who sell oxen, and cattle and slaves therein.
Beecher calls for a new American political party to uphold true American principles and reject corruption.
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The South, the truest representation of Absolutism under republican forms, is mightier in our National Councils and Policy to-day than New-England, the mother and representative of true republicanism and the whole free North.
It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.
But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.
It is not a permission of law; it is the inherent right of the individual.