Henry Ward Beecher: “Wealth, experience, ability set men above their fellows.”

The conflict which is going on springs from causes as deep as the foundations of our institutions.

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.

THAT is the ONLY question, in our day and in our community, full of vital struggles turning upon fundamental principles.

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.