William Lloyd Garrison: “I care not what caste, creed or colour, Slavery may assume.”

Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer.

Let me define my positions, and at the same time challenge any one to show wherein they are untenable.

Everywhere to do homage to it, to avoid collision with it, to propitiate its favour, is deemed essential--nay, is essential to political preferment and ecclesiastical advancement.

No alliance with Abolitionists, either in Church or State!" The issue is clear, explicit, determinate.