No compensation whatever for their past unrequited toil; no redress for their multitudinous wrongs; no settlement for sundered ties, bleeding backs, countless lacerations, darkened intellects, ruined souls!
Garrison highlights the lack of justice and reparations for the suffering endured by enslaved people.
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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?
Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.
Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?
The more the South reflected, the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital interest in maintaining the Union.