William Lloyd Garrison: “How can they receive the same baptism, be admitted to the same communion-table, believe in the same Gospel, and obtain…”

Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows, so shall it also reap?

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.

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

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