The Northwest Territory, Nebraska, Mexico, Cuba, Hayti, the Sandwich Islands, and colonial possessions in the tropics--to seize and subjugate these to its accursed reign, and ultimately to re-establish the foreign Slave Trade as a lawful commerce, are among its settled designs.
Garrison outlines the territorial ambitions of the pro-slavery forces in the United States.
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Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire.
Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.
It is not a question of probabilities, but of time.
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.