William Lloyd Garrison: “If such a spirit of manly indignation and unbending integrity pervaded the Northern breast, how long could Slavery stand…”

Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows, so shall it also reap?

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

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

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…