William Lloyd Garrison: “How were they to sustain an assault from England or France, with the cancer at their vitals?”

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

While, therefore, the Union is preserved, I see no end to the extension or perpetuity of Chattel Slavery--no hope for peaceful deliverance of the millions who are clanking their chains on our blood-red soil.

It is frightful to think of the capacity of a nation like this to commit sin, before the measure of its iniquities be filled, and the exterminating judgments of God overtake it.

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?