Then Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, and all who signed that instrument, and all who joined in the Revolutionary struggle, were deceivers in asserting it to be a self-evident truth, that all men are endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to liberty!
Garrison critiques the hypocrisy of the Founding Fathers regarding the principle of liberty for all.
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While, therefore, the Union is preserved, I see no end to the extension or perpetuity of Chattel Slavery--no hope for peaceful deliverance of the millions who are clanking their chains on our blood-red soil.
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.
It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.