Even some, whose zeal in the Anti-Slavery cause is fervent, are so infatuated as to propose no other remedy for Slavery but its non-extension.
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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They admit that, constitutionally, it has now a right to ravage two-thirds of the body politic--but they protest against its extension.
Some men are still talking of preventing the spread of the cancer, but leaving it just where it is.
That the sin of this nation is not geographical--is not specially Southern--but deep-seated and universal.
She has given respectability, security, and the means of sustenance and attack to her deadliest foe.
She could have emancipated every slave, long ere this, had she been upright in heart and free in spirit.
Whatever may be the guilt of the South, the North is still more responsible for the existence, growth and extension of Slavery.
Is the old Pilgrim spirit quenched within us, Stoops the proud manhood of our souls so low, That Passion's wile or Party's lure can win us To silence now?
Sons of old freemen! do we but inherit Their names alone?
Now, by our fathers' ashes! where's the spirit Of the true-hearted and th' unshackled gone?
Slavery cannot bear one ray of light, or the slightest criticism.
Our natural, God-given right of free speech, though constitutionally recognised as sacred in every part of the country, can be exercised in the slaveholding States only at the peril of our lives.