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

If they were cut loose from their friends at the North (friends that ought to be, and without them, the South had no friends), whither were they to look for protection?

While the present Union exists, I pronounce it hopeless to expect any repose, or that any barrier can be effectually raised against the extension of Slavery.

I will not try to make as good a bargain for the Lord as the Devil will let me, and plead the necessity of a compromise, and regret that I cannot do any better, and be thankful that I can do so much.

There is no North." A sordid, truckling, cowardly, compromising spirit, is everywhere seen.