William Lloyd Garrison: “Not a single slave will I leave in his chains, on any conditions, or under any circumstances.”

With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed above all other things--above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule--the Infinite God himself.

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

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.