William Lloyd Garrison: “It is odious and insolent to interfere between a man and his God; to fetter with law the choice which the conscience…”

Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!

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

Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?

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