William Lloyd Garrison: “What you demand for yourselves, in virtue of your manhood, I demand for the enslaved at the South, on the same ground.”

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?

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.

Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.