William Lloyd Garrison: “Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle.”

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…

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

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

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.