On the record
Let me define my positions, and at the same time challenge any one to show wherein they are untenable.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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gutenberg.orgWilliam Lloyd Garrison: “Let me define my positions, and at the same time challenge any one to show wherein they are untenable.”
Editor's note · Context
Garrison emphasizes the importance of clearly defining his stance on slavery and invites scrutiny of his views.
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A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum.
It is only when we come to the dividing line between the Free States and the Slave States that shoals, breakers and whirlpools beset the ship of State, and threaten to engulf or strand it.
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