William Lloyd Garrison: “Why, citizens of the Empire State, did you proclaim liberty to all in bondage on your soil, in 1827, and forevermore?”

The reason why the South rules, and North falls prostrate in servile terror, is simply this: With the South, the preservation of Slavery is paramount to all other considerations--above party success, denominational unity, pecuniary…

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.

The more the South reflected, the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital interest in maintaining the Union.

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