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If the Union was dissolved into two parts, the slave would cross the line, and then turn round and curse the master from the other shore.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Garrison illustrates the absurdity of the Southern position on slavery and the Union's dissolution.
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Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?
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.
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.