He may have business with you, and the less you do with him the better; but the moment that is over, turn from him as if he had the cholera or the plague--for there is a moral cholera and a political plague upon him.
Garrison uses a metaphor to describe the moral and political dangers of associating with pro-slavery individuals.
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Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.
They can never be reconciled--never walk together--never consent to a truce--never deal in honeyed phrases--never worship at the same altar--never acknowledge the same God.
The present American Union, therefore, is only one in form, not in reality.
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.