I Will Be As Harsh As Truth

It [slavery] Has Exercised Absolute Mastery Over The American Church. . . . With The Bible In Their Hands, Her Priesthood Have Attempted To Prove That Slavery Came Down From God Out Of Heaven. They Have Become Slaveholders And Dealers In Human Flesh.

With Reasonable Men, I Will Reason; With Humane Men I Will Plead; But To Tyrants I Will Give No Quarter, Nor Waste Arguments Where They Will Certainly Be Lost.

Tell A Man Whose House Is On Fire To Give A Moderate Alarm; Tell Him To Moderately Rescue His Wife From The Hands Of The Ravisher; Tell The Mother To Gradually Extricate Her Babe From The Fire Into Which It Has Fallen - But Urge Me Not To Use Moderation In A Cause Like The Present.

The Compact Which Exists Between The North And The South Is A Covenant With Death And An Agreement With Hell.

No Man Shall Rule Over Me With My Consent. I Will Rule Over No Man.