The union between liberty and slavery was a marriage without love, a house divided against itself; a couple unequally yoked together, held together by external force, not by moral cohesion; it brought happiness to neither, and misery to both.
He metaphorically describes the union of liberty and slavery as a troubled marriage, illustrating the inherent conflict.
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