William Lloyd Garrison: “While the present Union exists, I pronounce it hopeless to expect any repose, or that any barrier can be effectually…”

And whom will a just God hold responsible for all these results?

How can they administer the same Government, or legislate for the same interests?

If they were cut loose from their friends at the North (friends that ought to be, and without them, the South had no friends), whither were they to look for protection?

They who desire me to be dumb on the subject of Slavery, unless I will open my mouth in its defence, ask me to give the lie to my professions, to degrade my manhood, and to stain my soul.