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

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

The reason why the South rules, and North falls prostrate in servile terror, is simply this: With the South, the preservation of Slavery is paramount to all other considerations--above party success, denominational unity, pecuniary…

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

With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed above all other things--above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule--the Infinite God himself.