William Lloyd Garrison: “Distinguished link in being's endless chain, Midway from nothing to the Deity!”

Everywhere to do homage to it, to avoid collision with it, to propitiate its favour, is deemed essential--nay, is essential to political preferment and ecclesiastical advancement.

No alliance with Abolitionists, either in Church or State!" The issue is clear, explicit, determinate.

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…

It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the Slave Power over the whole country--nothing more.