William Lloyd Garrison: “Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows…”

Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.

The reason why the South rules, and North falls prostrate in servile terror, is simply this: With the South, the preservation of Slavery is paramount to all other considerations--above party success, denominational unity, pecuniary…

Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.

While, therefore, the Union is preserved, I see no end to the extension or perpetuity of Chattel Slavery--no hope for peaceful deliverance of the millions who are clanking their chains on our blood-red soil.