William Lloyd Garrison: “The argument for non-extension is an argument for the dissolution of…”

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The argument for non-extension is an argument for the dissolution of the Union.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Garrison argues that the argument against the expansion of slavery ultimately undermines the unity of the nation.

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The act, in both cases, is essentially the same--equally inhuman, immoral, piratical.

Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer.

It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the Slave Power over the whole country--nothing more.

There is no North." A sordid, truckling, cowardly, compromising spirit, is everywhere seen.

William Lloyd Garrison: “The argument for non-extension is an argument for the dissolution of the Union.”