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.
Garrison expresses his belief that the continuation of the Union will prolong slavery indefinitely.
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Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.
With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed above all other things--above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule--the Infinite God himself.
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.