William Lloyd Garrison: “What! is it going too far to ask, for those who have been outraged and plundered all their lives long, nothing but…”

With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed above all other things--above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule--the Infinite God himself.

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

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

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?