On the record
If it would be a damning sin for us to admit another Slave State into the Union, why is it not a damning sin to permit a Slave State to remain in the Union?
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William Lloyd Garrison
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gutenberg.orgWilliam Lloyd Garrison: “If it would be a damning sin for us to admit another Slave State into the Union, why is it not a damning sin to permit a…”
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Garrison argues that allowing existing slave states to remain is as morally reprehensible as admitting new ones.
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No alliance with Abolitionists, either in Church or State!" The issue is clear, explicit, determinate.
No insult or outrage, no deed of impiety or blood, on the part of the South, can startle us into resistance, or inspire us with self-respect.
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