I will not try to make as good a bargain for the Lord as the Devil will let me, and plead the necessity of a compromise, and regret that I cannot do any better, and be thankful that I can do so much.
Garrison refuses to negotiate with the morality of slavery, rejecting any notion of compromise.
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If they are valid, then why is not the jesuitical doctrine, that the end sanctifies them, and that it is right to do evil that good may come, morally sound?
It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the Slave Power over the whole country--nothing more.
Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.
No alliance with Abolitionists, either in Church or State!" The issue is clear, explicit, determinate.