William Lloyd Garrison: “Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?”

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…

Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.

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

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