William Lloyd Garrison: “If they are valid, in any instance, what becomes of the Declaration of Independence?”

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

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?

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

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.