With a glow of moral indignation, I protest against the promise and the pledge, by whomsoever made, that if the Slave Power will seek no more to lengthen its cords and strengthen its stakes, it may go unmolested end unchallenged, and survive as long as it can within its present limits.
Garrison expresses his moral outrage against any agreement that allows slavery to persist unchallenged.
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It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.
It is not a question of probabilities, but of time.
Hence, I cannot but regard oppression in every form--and most of all, that which turns a man into a thing--with indignation and abhorrence.
Cotton is in their ears--blinds are over their eyes--padlocks are upon their lips.