William Lloyd Garrison: “Who or what are my wife and children, that they should not be herded with four-footed beasts, as well as others thus…”

While, therefore, the Union is preserved, I see no end to the extension or perpetuity of Chattel Slavery--no hope for peaceful deliverance of the millions who are clanking their chains on our blood-red soil.

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.

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