William Lloyd Garrison: “Not a solitary slaveholder will I allow to enjoy repose on any other condition than instantly ceasing to be one.”

And whom will a just God hold responsible for all these results?

The present American Union, therefore, is only one in form, not in reality.

The Northwest Territory, Nebraska, Mexico, Cuba, Hayti, the Sandwich Islands, and colonial possessions in the tropics--to seize and subjugate these to its accursed reign, and ultimately to re-establish the foreign Slave Trade as a lawful…

If they were cut loose from their friends at the North (friends that ought to be, and without them, the South had no friends), whither were they to look for protection?