Oppression is not a matter of latitude or longitude; here excusable, there to be execrated; here to elevate the oppressor to the highest station, there to hang him by the neck till he is dead; here compatible with Christianity, there to be branded and punished as piracy.
Garrison argues that oppression is universally wrong, regardless of location or justification.
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Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!
While, therefore, the Union is preserved, I see no end to the extension or perpetuity of Chattel Slavery--no hope for peaceful deliverance of the millions who are clanking their chains on our blood-red soil.
Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.
The more the South reflected, the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital interest in maintaining the Union.