Chapter X: Appendix: A

The unexpected length to which this pamphlet has extended prevents the Author introducing here, as he had contemplated 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 Defensive Dictionary_," by the Author.

B.

Extract of an Address of William Lloyd Garrison, Esq., from "THE LONDON PATRIOT," of August, 1833; and republished in "THE COLONIZATION HERALD" of this City, May 16th, 1838.

"I know that there is much declamation about the sacredness of
the compact which was formed between the free and the slave
states, on the adoption of the national constitution. A sacred
compact, forsooth! I pronounce it the most bloody 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 everlasting infamy 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
monstrous coalition to do evil that good might come. Such a
compact was, in the nature of things, and according to the law
of God, null and void from the beginning. No body of men ever
had the right to guarantee the holding of human beings in
bondage. 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 violation of all the
precepts and injunctions of the Gospel--such a savage war upon
the sixth part of their own population? They were men like
ourselves--as fallible, as sinful, as weak as ourselves. By
the infamous bargain which they made between themselves, they
virtually dethroned the Most High God, and trampled 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 lawful
power to bind themselves, or their posterity, for one
hour--for one moment--by such an unholy alliance. It was not
valid 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 ignominious?

(Signed) WM. LLOYD GARRISON,
Agent for the New-England Anti-Slavery Society."