William Lloyd Garrison: “Show me the party that can obtain supremacy only by trampling upon human individuality and personal sovereignty, and you…”

Let me define my positions, and at the same time challenge any one to show wherein they are untenable.

Everywhere to do homage to it, to avoid collision with it, to propitiate its favour, is deemed essential--nay, is essential to political preferment and ecclesiastical advancement.

Cotton is in their ears--blinds are over their eyes--padlocks are upon their lips.

With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed above all other things--above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule--the Infinite God himself.