William Lloyd Garrison: “In vain do they clank their chains, and fill the air with their shrieks, and make their supplications for mercy.”

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

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.

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

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