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

If the South shall give to the country a policy derived from her heathen notions of men, there will be such a peace as men have overdrugged with opium, that deep lethargy just before the mortal convulsions and death!

Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.

Dying, we will leave it a legacy to our children, and they shall will it to theirs, until the work is done, our fathers' prayers are answered, and this whole land stands clothed and in its right mind--a symbol of what the earthly fruits of…

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