From MR. GARRISON’S SPEECH AT NEW YORK
The slaveholders of the South are not only opposed to Northern Abolitionists, but to Northern ideas and Northern institutions. ….Listen to the language of the Richmond Examiner: –– “The South now maintains that slavery is right, natural and necessary, and does not depend upon complexion. The laws of the slave States justify the holding of white men in bondage.”he Northern States will yet have to introduce it in bondage.”
The Charleston Mercury says: — “Slavery is the natural and normal condition of the laboring man, whether white or black……..Master and slave is a relation in society as necessary as that of parent and child; and the Northern States will yet have to introduce it. Their theory of a free government is a delusion.”
The Richmond Enquirer says: — “Two opposite and conflicting forms of society cannot, among civilized men, coexist and endure. The one must give way and cease to exist. The other becomes universal. If free society be unnatural, immoral, unchristian, it must fall, and give way to slave society — a social system old as the world, universal as man.”
(Liberator, Jan 24, 1862, pg 2) – from Mr. Garrison’s Speech at New York,
