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William Lloyd Garrison

CHAPTER XIII
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The right of free and safe locomotion from one part of the land to the other is denied to us, except on peril of our lives....

Therefore it is, I assert, that the Union is now virtually dissolved....

Look at McDuffie's sanguinary message! Read Calhoun's Report to the U.S.

Senate, authorizing every postmaster in the South to plunder the mail of such Northern letters or newspapers as he may choose to think incendiary! Sir, the alternative presented to the people of New England is this: they must either submit to be gagged and fettered by Southern taskmasters, or labor unceasingly for the removal of slavery from our country." This was a capital stroke, a bold and brilliant adaptation of the history of the times to the advancement of the anti-slavery movement in New England.

Missing Garrison, the anger of the chairman fell upon Goodell and Prof.Follen, like a tiger's whelp.


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