William Lloyd Garrison: “It is frightful to think of the capacity of a nation like this to commit sin, before the measure of its iniquities be…”

I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.

And whom will a just God hold responsible for all these results?

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.

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?