How were they to sustain an assault from England or France, with the cancer at their vitals?
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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If they were cut loose from their friends at the North (friends that ought to be, and without them, the South had no friends), whither were they to look for protection?
A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum.
Suppose the dissolution could be peaceably effected (if that did not involve a contradiction in terms), what had the South to depend upon?
He would ask his Southern friends what the South had to rely on, if the Union were dissolved?
If the Union was dissolved into two parts, the slave would cross the line, and then turn round and curse the master from the other shore.
It has been the common practice for Southern men to get up on this floor, and say, 'Touch this subject, and we will dissolve this Union as a remedy.' Their remedy was the destruction of the thing which they wished to save, and any sensible…
The dissolution of the Union was the dissolution of Slavery.
And whom will a just God hold responsible for all these results?
It is not a question of probabilities, but of time.
The Northwest Territory, Nebraska, Mexico, Cuba, Hayti, the Sandwich Islands, and colonial possessions in the tropics--to seize and subjugate these to its accursed reign, and ultimately to re-establish the foreign Slave Trade as a lawful…
While the present Union exists, I pronounce it hopeless to expect any repose, or that any barrier can be effectually raised against the extension of Slavery.