William Lloyd Garrison: “It is plain, therefore, that whatever cannot flourish except at the sacrifice of that being, ought not to exist.”

Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.

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…

It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the Slave Power over the whole country--nothing more.

If they are valid, then why is not the jesuitical doctrine, that the end sanctifies them, and that it is right to do evil that good may come, morally sound?