William Lloyd Garrison: “It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the Slave Power over the whole country--nothing more.”

The reason why the South rules, and North falls prostrate in servile terror, is simply this: With the South, the preservation of Slavery is paramount to all other considerations--above party success, denominational unity, pecuniary…

Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?

Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows, so shall it also reap?

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