William Lloyd Garrison: “No alliance with Abolitionists, either in Church or State!" The issue is clear, explicit, determinate.”

By the Declaration of Independence, he is pronounced a man-stealer.

Nay, cannot all the despotisms of the earth take shelter under them?

With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed above all other things--above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule--the Infinite God himself.

They who desire me to be dumb on the subject of Slavery, unless I will open my mouth in its defence, ask me to give the lie to my professions, to degrade my manhood, and to stain my soul.