On the record
Not a solitary slaveholder will I allow to enjoy repose on any other condition than instantly ceasing to be one.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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gutenberg.orgNot a solitary slaveholder will I allow to enjoy repose on any other condition than instantly ceasing to be one.
Garrison insists that no slaveholder should find peace until they cease their enslavement.
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It is, and it always has been, the absolute supremacy of the Slave Power over the whole country--nothing more.
They can never be reconciled--never walk together--never consent to a truce--never deal in honeyed phrases--never worship at the same altar--never acknowledge the same God.
There is no North." A sordid, truckling, cowardly, compromising spirit, is everywhere seen.
Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire.