William Lloyd Garrison: “They touch our country, and their shackles fall!”

It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.

It is frightful to think of the capacity of a nation like this to commit sin, before the measure of its iniquities be filled, and the exterminating judgments of God overtake it.

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…

Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.