With a glow of moral indignation, I protest against the promise and the pledge, by whomsoever made, that if the Slave Power will seek no more to lengthen its cords and strengthen its stakes, it may go unmolested end unchallenged, and survive as long as it can within its present limits.
Garrison expresses his moral outrage against any agreement that allows slavery to persist unchallenged.
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Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.
The reason why the South rules, and North falls prostrate in servile terror, is simply this: With the South, the preservation of Slavery is paramount to all other considerations--above party success, denominational unity, pecuniary…
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.
It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.