William Lloyd Garrison: “On what ground can the revolutionary war, can any struggle for liberty, be justified?”

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.

While the present Union exists, I pronounce it hopeless to expect any repose, or that any barrier can be effectually raised against the extension of Slavery.

If they were cut loose from their friends at the North (friends that ought to be, and without them, the South had no friends), whither were they to look for protection?

For one church that excludes the human enslaver from its communion table, multitudes extend to him the right hand of religious fellowship.