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

Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.

Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle.

Hence, I cannot but regard oppression in every form--and most of all, that which turns a man into a thing--with indignation and abhorrence.

It is only when we come to the dividing line between the Free States and the Slave States that shoals, breakers and whirlpools beset the ship of State, and threaten to engulf or strand it.