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William Lloyd Garrison: “The two great parties which absorb nearly the whole voting strength of the Republic are pledged to be deaf, dumb and…”

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The two great parties which absorb nearly the whole voting strength of the Republic are pledged to be deaf, dumb and blind to whatever outrages the Slave Power may attempt to perpetrate.
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William Lloyd Garrison

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Garrison claims that the major political parties in America ignore the atrocities committed by the Slave Power.

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