William Lloyd Garrison: “I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.”

It is only when we come to the dividing line between the Free States and the Slave States that shoals, breakers and whirlpools beset the ship of State, and threaten to engulf or strand it.

It is not a question of probabilities, but of time.

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

With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed above all other things--above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule--the Infinite God himself.