William Lloyd Garrison: “What right have I to be free, that another man cannot prove himself to possess by nature?”

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

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

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

The reason why the South rules, and North falls prostrate in servile terror, is simply this: With the South, the preservation of Slavery is paramount to all other considerations--above party success, denominational unity, pecuniary…