William Lloyd Garrison: “They are the logic of Bedlam, the morality of the pirate ship, the…”

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They are the logic of Bedlam, the morality of the pirate ship, the diabolism of the pit.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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This vivid metaphor illustrates Garrison's disdain for the flawed logic supporting slavery.

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

It is not a struggle for national salvation; for the nation, as such, seems doomed beyond recovery.

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?

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

William Lloyd Garrison: “They are the logic of Bedlam, the morality of the pirate ship, the diabolism of the pit.”