William Lloyd Garrison: “Slavery cannot bear one ray of light, or the slightest criticism.”

The reason why the South rules, and North falls prostrate in servile terror, is simply this: With the South, the preservation of Slavery is paramount to all other considerations--above party success, denominational unity, pecuniary…

A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum.

They can never be reconciled--never walk together--never consent to a truce--never deal in honeyed phrases--never worship at the same altar--never acknowledge the same God.

Convince me that one man may rightfully make another man his slave, and I will no longer subscribe to the Declaration of Independence.