William Lloyd Garrison: “Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer.”

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…

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?

It is frightful to think of the capacity of a nation like this to commit sin, before the measure of its iniquities be filled, and the exterminating judgments of God overtake it.

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