No Compromise with Slavery: An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York — John Shaqi
No Compromise with Slavery: An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New YorkGarrison, William Lloyd
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No Compromise with Slavery: An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York
Garrison, William Lloyd
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States; Slavery -- United States; Slavery and the church
Numerically, the contest may be an unequal one, for the time being;
but the Author of liberty and the Source of justice, the adorable God,
is more than multitudinous, and he will defend the right. My crime is,
that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is,
that when I say that Freedom is of God, and Slavery is of the devil, I
mean just what I say. My fanaticism is, that I insist on the American
people abolishing Slavery, or ceasing to prate of the rights of man.
My hardihood is, in measuring them by their own standard, and
convicting them out of their own mouths.
"Woe to the rebellions children, saith the Lord, that take
counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but
not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin.
That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my
mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,
and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the
enact in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a
book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children
that will not hear the law of the Lord.
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy
not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things;
prophesy deceits; get you out of the way, turn aside out of
the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before
us.
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye
despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness,
and stay thereon:
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to
fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh
suddenly, at an instant."
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