Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.
William Lloyd Garrison
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William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. His widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator was a driving force that fueled the abolitionist era, which Garrison founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. He supported the rights of women, and during the 1870s became a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.
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Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!
— William Lloyd Garrison
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With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed above all other things--above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule--the Infinite God himself.
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…
It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.
Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows, so shall it also reap?
Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?
It is frightful to think of the capacity of a nation like this to commit sin, before the measure of its iniquities be filled, and the exterminating judgments of God overtake it.
But how long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone foresees.
Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.
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.
The more the South reflected, the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital interest in maintaining the Union.