Would it not be the acme of effrontery for a man, in amicable alliance with fifteen pickpockets, to profess scruples of conscience in regard to admitting another pilfering rogue to the fraternity?
He uses a vivid analogy to illustrate the absurdity of moral objections to slavery while being complicit in its existence.
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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.
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.
Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?
Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!