William Lloyd Garrison: “While the present Union exists, I pronounce it hopeless to expect any repose, or that any barrier can be effectually…”

There is no North." A sordid, truckling, cowardly, compromising spirit, is everywhere seen.

How can they receive the same baptism, be admitted to the same communion-table, believe in the same Gospel, and obtain the same heavenly inheritance?

Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.

Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire.