William Lloyd Garrison: “I do not know how to worship God and Mammon at the same time.”

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.

Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.

The reason why the South rules, and North falls prostrate in servile terror, is simply this: With the South, the preservation of Slavery is paramount to all other considerations--above party success, denominational unity, pecuniary…

The more the South reflected, the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital interest in maintaining the Union.