William Lloyd Garrison: “He would ask his Southern friends what the South had to rely on, if…”

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He would ask his Southern friends what the South had to rely on, if the Union were dissolved?

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Garrison challenges Southern leaders to consider their reliance on the Union for security.

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Her devotion to it is the latest and the most terrible form of idolatry.

William Lloyd Garrison: “He would ask his Southern friends what the South had to rely on, if the Union were dissolved?”