Author : William Lloyd Garrison
Release : 2014-03-24
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 271/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis No Compromise With Slavery by : William Lloyd Garrison
Download or read book No Compromise With Slavery written by William Lloyd Garrison. This book was released on 2014-03-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost 35 years William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) published THE LIBERATOR, an abolitionist newspaper, in Massachusetts, ending only when slavery was abolished after the Civil War. His support and tireless efforts for immediate and complete emancipation made him a mortal enemy of the slave powers in the South. His efforts as a social reformer included supporting voting rights for women, but it was as a pioneer of American emancipation that Garrison became best known.FROM HIS SPEECH:The Abolitionism which I advocate is as absolute as the law of God, and as unyielding as His throne. It admits of no compromise. Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer. By no precedent, no example, no law, no compact, no purchase, no bequest, no inheritance, no combination of circumstances, is slaveholding right or justifiable. While a slave remains in his fetters, the land must have no rest. Whatever sanctions his doom must be pronounced accursed. The law that makes him a chattel is to be trampled under foot; the compact that is formed at his expense, and cemented with his blood, is null and void; the church that consents to his enslavement is horribly atheistical; the religion that receives to its communion the enslaver is the embodiment of all criminality. Such, at least, is the verdict of my own soul, on the supposition that I am to be the slave; that my wife is to be sold from me for the vilest purposes; that my children are to be torn from my arms, and disposed of to the highest bidder, like sheep in the market. And who am I but a man? What right have I to be free, that another man cannot prove himself to possess by nature? Who or what are my wife and children, that they should not be herded with four-footed beasts, as well as others thus sacredly related? If I am white, and another is black, complexionally, what follows?"Does, then, th' immortal principle within Change with the casual colour of the skin? Does matter govern spirit? or is mind Degraded by the form to which 'tis joined?"
