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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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.
How were they to sustain an assault from England or France, with the cancer at their vitals?
There is no North." A sordid, truckling, cowardly, compromising spirit, is everywhere seen.
How can they receive the same baptism, be admitted to the same communion-table, believe in the same Gospel, and obtain the same heavenly inheritance?