Henry Ward Beecher: “There is not freedom of opinion in the South and there cannot be.”

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…

All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.

And if by an insane blindness you shall contrive to put off the issue, and send this unsettled dispute down to your children, it will go down, gathering volume and strength at every step, to waste and desolate their heritage.

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