William Lloyd Garrison: “A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum.”

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.

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?

Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?

But how long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone foresees.