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

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

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.

While, therefore, the Union is preserved, I see no end to the extension or perpetuity of Chattel Slavery--no hope for peaceful deliverance of the millions who are clanking their chains on our blood-red soil.