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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It is only when we come to the dividing line between the Free States and the Slave States that shoals, breakers and whirlpools beset the ship of State, and threaten to engulf or strand it.
A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum.
And whom will a just God hold responsible for all these results?
Nay, cannot all the despotisms of the earth take shelter under them?