William Lloyd Garrison: “Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I…”

Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.

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.

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.

Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?