William Lloyd Garrison: “The dissolution of the Union was the dissolution of Slavery.”

Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.

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!