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If the Lord be God, serve Him; but if Baal, then serve him." The South may well laugh to scorn the affected moral sensibility of the North against the extension of her slave system.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Editor's note · Context
He contrasts the moral stance of the North against slavery's expansion with its acceptance of existing slave states, invoking a biblical reference.
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