William Lloyd Garrison: “They are as clay in the hands of the potter, and already moulded into vessels of dishonour, to be used for the vilest…”

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.

The more the South reflected, the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital interest in maintaining the Union.

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?