William Lloyd Garrison: “Sons of old freemen! do we but inherit Their names alone?”

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.

But how long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone foresees.

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

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