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

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

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?

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

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