William Lloyd Garrison: “Whatever sanctions his doom must be pronounced accursed.”

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

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

Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.

While, therefore, the Union is preserved, I see no end to the extension or perpetuity of Chattel Slavery--no hope for peaceful deliverance of the millions who are clanking their chains on our blood-red soil.