William Lloyd Garrison: “If you will no longer agitate the subject, we will not." There is no sense, no principle, no force in such an issue.”

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?

It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.

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

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.