William Lloyd Garrison: “How is it that I am a madman, and you are perfectly rational?”

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.

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.

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

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