William Lloyd Garrison: “Certainly, not on the ground of expediency, but of principle.”

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

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?

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

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.