William Lloyd Garrison: “A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum.”

Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!

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

Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?

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.