I have expressed the belief that, so lost to all self-respect and all ideas of justice have we become by the corrupting presence of Slavery, in no European nation is personal liberty held at such discount, as a matter of principle, as in our own.
Garrison critiques the moral decline in the United States due to the influence of slavery on personal liberty.
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