William Lloyd Garrison: “Not a solitary slaveholder will I allow to enjoy repose on any other condition than instantly ceasing to be one.”

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.

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

Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!

Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows, so shall it also reap?