William Lloyd Garrison: “The principles, the feelings of our nature, rise in rebellion against it.”

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

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.

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

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?