William Lloyd Garrison: “There is no North." A sordid, truckling, cowardly, compromising spirit, is everywhere seen.”

By the Declaration of Independence, he is pronounced a man-stealer.

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…

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.

I will not try to make as good a bargain for the Lord as the Devil will let me, and plead the necessity of a compromise, and regret that I cannot do any better, and be thankful that I can do so much.