William Lloyd Garrison: “Such is man, in every clime--above all compacts, greater than all institutions, sacred against every outrage, priceless…”

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

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

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?