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Suppose the dissolution could be peaceably effected (if that did not involve a contradiction in terms), what had the South to depend upon?
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Garrison questions the Southern states' ability to survive without the Union's support.
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Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.
I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.
It is only when we come to the dividing line between the Free States and the Slave States that shoals, breakers and whirlpools beset the ship of State, and threaten to engulf or strand it.
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.