William Lloyd Garrison: “Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.”

The more the South reflected, the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital interest in maintaining the Union.

Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!

But how long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone foresees.

Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.