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.
Garrison critiques the prioritization of the Union over moral principles in his address.
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Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!
But how long it is to curse the earth, and desecrate his image, he alone foresees.
Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.
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