William Lloyd Garrison: “On what ground can the revolutionary war, can any struggle for liberty, be justified?”

If they were cut loose from their friends at the North (friends that ought to be, and without them, the South had no friends), whither were they to look for protection?

I will not be a liar, a poltroon, or a hypocrite, to accommodate any party, to gratify any sect, to escape any odium or peril, to save any interest, to preserve any institution, or to promote any object.

Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle.

It is not a question of probabilities, but of time.