He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." So reads the Mosaic code, and by it every American Slaveholder is convicted of a capital crime.
Garrison cites biblical law to condemn American slaveholders as guilty of a capital crime.
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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.
Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.
Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.
Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!