William Lloyd Garrison: “Some men are still talking of preventing the spread of the cancer, but leaving it just where it is.”

It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.

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.

It is frightful to think of the capacity of a nation like this to commit sin, before the measure of its iniquities be filled, and the exterminating judgments of God overtake it.

Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.