William Lloyd Garrison: “Slavery cannot bear one ray of light, or the slightest criticism.”

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.

Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!

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