William Lloyd Garrison: “And whom will a just God hold responsible for all these results?”

A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum.

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

I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.

No insult or outrage, no deed of impiety or blood, on the part of the South, can startle us into resistance, or inspire us with self-respect.