William Lloyd Garrison: “It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.”

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

And whom will a just God hold responsible for all these results?

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.

Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle.