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

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

But how long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone foresees.

With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed above all other things--above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule--the Infinite God himself.

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.