With Reasonable Men, I Will Reason; With

What Shall Be Said, Then, Of Those Who Insist Upon Ignoring The Question Of Slavery As Not Involved In This Deadly Feud, And Maintain That The Only Issue Is, The Support Of The Government And The Preservation Of The Union? Surely, They Are "fools And Blind"; For It Is Slaveholders Alone Who Have Conspired To Seize The One, And Overturn The Other. As Long As The Enslavement Of A Single Human Being Is Sanctioned In The Land, The Curse Of God Will Rest Upon It.

There Must Be No Compromise With Slavery - None Whatever. Nothing Is Gained, Everything Is Lost, By Subordinating Principle To Expedience.

Has Not The Experience Of Two Centuries Shown That Gradualism In Theory Is Perpetuity In Practice? Is There An Instance, In The History Of The World, Where Slaves Have Been Educated For Freedom By Their Task-masters?

Be Faithful, Be Vigilant, Be Untiring In Your Efforts To Break Every Yoke, And Let The Oppressed Go Free. Come What May - Cost What It May - Inscribe On The Banner Which You Unfurl To The Breeze, As Your Religious And Political Motto - "no Compromise With Slavery! No Union With Slaveholders

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.