William Lloyd Garrison: “It is odious and insolent to interfere between a man and his God; to fetter with law the choice which the conscience…”

The present American Union, therefore, is only one in form, not in reality.

If they are valid, then why is not the jesuitical doctrine, that the end sanctifies them, and that it is right to do evil that good may come, morally sound?

The act, in both cases, is essentially the same--equally inhuman, immoral, piratical.

Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire.