On the record
If slaveholding is not wrong under all circumstances, why have you decreed it to be so, within the limits of your State jurisdiction?
Said by
William Lloyd Garrison
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gutenberg.orgWilliam Lloyd Garrison: “If slaveholding is not wrong under all circumstances, why have you decreed it to be so, within the limits of your State…”
Editor's note · Context
Garrison points out the hypocrisy of laws against slavery while still allowing it in other jurisdictions.
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Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!
Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.
But how long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone foresees.
Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?