William Lloyd Garrison: “They admit that, constitutionally, it has now a right to ravage two-thirds of the body politic--but they protest against…”

Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows, so shall it also reap?

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.

Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!

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.