The unexpected length to which this pamphlet has extended prevents the Author introducing here, as he had contemplated1 in page 11, an article on the difference of opinion among mankind in all parts and ages of the world, without divine revelation, on that which is really good and really evil. See article "Morality," in "The Christian's Defensive2 Dictionary," by the Author.
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Extract of an Address of William Lloyd Garrison3, Esq., from "The London Patriot," of August, 1833; and republished in "The Colonization4 Herald5" of this City, May 16th, 1838.
"I know that there is much declamation6 about the sacredness of the compact which was formed between the free and the slave states, on the adoption7 of the national constitution. A sacred compact, forsooth! I pronounce it the most bloody8 and heaven-daring arrangement ever made by man, for the continuance and protection of a system of the most atrocious villany ever exhibited on earth. Yes—I recognize the compact, but with feelings of shame and indignation; and it will be held in everlasting9 infamy10 by the friends of justice and humanity throughout the world. It was a contract framed at the sacrifice of the bodies and souls of millions of our race, for the sake of achieving a political epoch—an unblushing and monstrous11 coalition12 to do evil that good might come. Such a compact was, in the nature of things, and according to the law of God, [92]null and void from the beginning. No body of men ever had the right to guarantee the holding of human beings in bondage13. Who or what were the framers of the American government, that they should dare to confirm and authorise such a high handed villany—such a flagrant robbery of the inalienable rights of man—such a glaring violation14 of all the precepts15 and injunctions of the Gospel—such a savage16 war upon the sixth part of their own population? They were men like ourselves—as fallible, as sinful, as weak as ourselves. By the infamous17 bargain which they made between themselves, they virtually dethroned the Most High God, and trampled18 beneath their feet their own solemn and heaven-attested declaration, that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They had no lawful19 power to bind20 themselves, or their posterity21, for one hour—for one moment—by such an unholy alliance. It was not valid22 then—it is not valid now. Still they persist in maintaining it—and still do their successors, the people of New England, and of the twelve free states, persist in maintaining it. A sacred compact! a sacred compact! What is wicked and ignominious23?
(Signed) WM. LLOYD GARRISON,
Agent for the New-England Anti-Slavery Society."
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