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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