William Lloyd Garrison: “How were they to sustain an assault from England or France, with the cancer at their vitals?”

It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.

Everywhere to do homage to it, to avoid collision with it, to propitiate its favour, is deemed essential--nay, is essential to political preferment and ecclesiastical advancement.

The present American Union, therefore, is only one in form, not in reality.

No alliance with Abolitionists, either in Church or State!" The issue is clear, explicit, determinate.