William Lloyd Garrison: “Now, by our fathers' ashes! where's the spirit Of the true-hearted and th' unshackled gone?”

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

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.

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

Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.