Henry Ward Beecher: “But such is the public opinion in favor of personal independence springing from industry, that a native-born American…”

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.

Remember, that New-England brought to America those principles which every State in the Union has more or less thoroughly adopted.

There is a noticeable contrast between Northern and Southern ideas of Religion.

The whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.