William Lloyd Garrison: “Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total…”

How were they to sustain an assault from England or France, with the cancer at their vitals?

No insult or outrage, no deed of impiety or blood, on the part of the South, can startle us into resistance, or inspire us with self-respect.

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

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?