Henry Ward Beecher: “And so great are the achievements of labor that everybody honors it.”

But New-England was not raised up by Divine Providence to play a mean part in the world's affairs.

It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.

There have been, from the earliest period of the world, two different, and oppugnant, doctrines of man--his place, rights, duties and relations.

Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.