William Lloyd Garrison: “That the sin of this nation is not geographical--is not specially…”

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That the sin of this nation is not geographical--is not specially Southern--but deep-seated and universal.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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He argues that the sin of slavery is not confined to one region but is a pervasive issue affecting the entire nation.

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Yet I know that God reigns, and that the slave system contains within itself the elements of destruction.

The more the South reflected, the more clearly she must see that she has a deep and vital interest in maintaining the Union.

Or is God but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination?

Has an everlasting divorce been effected between cause and effect, and is it an absurd doctrine that, as a nation sows, so shall it also reap?

William Lloyd Garrison: “That the sin of this nation is not geographical--is not specially Southern--but deep-seated and universal.”