It is only when we come to the dividing line between the Free States and the Slave States that shoals, breakers and whirlpools beset the ship of State, and threaten to engulf or strand it.
Garrison emphasizes the dangers posed by the division between free and slave states in America.
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Living or dying, defeated or victorious, be it ours to exclaim, "No compromise with Slavery!
Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows, so shall it also reap?
It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.
The more the South reflected, the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital interest in maintaining the Union.