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

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

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?

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

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