William Lloyd Garrison: “They are the logic of Bedlam, the morality of the pirate ship, the diabolism of the pit.”

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

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?

A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum.

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.