William Lloyd Garrison: “How can they administer the same Government, or legislate for the same interests?”

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

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

Oppression is not a matter of latitude or longitude; here excusable, there to be execrated; here to elevate the oppressor to the highest station, there to hang him by the neck till he is dead; here compatible with Christianity, there to be…

For one church that excludes the human enslaver from its communion table, multitudes extend to him the right hand of religious fellowship.