On the record
If it would be a damning sin for us to admit another Slave State into the Union, why is it not a damning sin to permit a Slave State to remain in the Union?
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Garrison argues that allowing existing slave states to remain is as morally reprehensible as admitting new ones.
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Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.
No alliance with Abolitionists, either in Church or State!" The issue is clear, explicit, determinate.
Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer.
If they were cut loose from their friends at the North (friends that ought to be, and without them, the South had no friends), whither were they to look for protection?