How can they administer the same Government, or legislate for the same interests?
William Lloyd Garrison
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William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. His widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator was a driving force that fueled the abolitionist era, which Garrison founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. He supported the rights of women, and during the 1870s became a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.
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A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum.
If they were cut loose from their friends at the North (friends that ought to be, and without them, the South had no friends), whither were they to look for protection?
How were they to sustain an assault from England or France, with the cancer at their vitals?
It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.
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…
With the North, the preservation of the Union is placed above all other things--above honour, justice, freedom, integrity of soul, the Decalogue and the Golden Rule--the Infinite God himself.
I will not try to make as good a bargain for the Lord as the Devil will let me, and plead the necessity of a compromise, and regret that I cannot do any better, and be thankful that I can do so much.
No alliance with Abolitionists, either in Church or State!" The issue is clear, explicit, determinate.
They can never be reconciled--never walk together--never consent to a truce--never deal in honeyed phrases--never worship at the same altar--never acknowledge the same God.
In manners, in morals, in philosophy, in religion, in ideas of justice, in notions of law, in theories of government, in valuations or men, they are totally dissimilar.
I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.