William Lloyd Garrison: “Now, by our fathers' ashes! where's the spirit Of the true-hearted and th' unshackled gone?”

They who desire me to be dumb on the subject of Slavery, unless I will open my mouth in its defence, ask me to give the lie to my professions, to degrade my manhood, and to stain my soul.

If they are valid, then why is not the jesuitical doctrine, that the end sanctifies them, and that it is right to do evil that good may come, morally sound?

It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.

The present American Union, therefore, is only one in form, not in reality.