The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.