The reason why the South rules, and North falls prostrate in servile terror, is simply this: With the South, the preservation of Slavery is paramount to all other considerations--above party success, denominational unity, pecuniary interest, legal integrity, and constitutional obligation.
Garrison critiques the South's prioritization of slavery over all other values and interests.
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Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.
It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.
Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows, so shall it also reap?
The more the South reflected, the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital interest in maintaining the Union.