He may have business with you, and the less you do with him the better; but the moment that is over, turn from him as if he had the cholera or the plague--for there is a moral cholera and a political plague upon him.
Garrison uses a metaphor to describe the moral and political dangers of associating with pro-slavery individuals.
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I do not know how to espouse freedom and slavery together.
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.
No insult or outrage, no deed of impiety or blood, on the part of the South, can startle us into resistance, or inspire us with self-respect.
Everywhere to do homage to it, to avoid collision with it, to propitiate its favour, is deemed essential--nay, is essential to political preferment and ecclesiastical advancement.