William Lloyd Garrison: “And whom will a just God hold responsible for all these results?”

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…

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

Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?

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