William Lloyd Garrison: “How rich, how poor, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man!”

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?

Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.

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

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.