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.
Garrison emphasizes the danger of exercising free speech in slaveholding states, where it can lead to violence.
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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.
Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.
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.
Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!