Truisms
1. All men are born equal, and entitled to protection, excepting those whose skins are black and hair woolly; or, to prevent mistake, excepting Africans, and their descendants. 2. If […]
The War—Its Cause and Cure
Eighty-five years ago, the war-cry of “INDEPENDENCE” rang throughout all the American Colonies, and a united people took up arms to sunder their connection forever with the mother country. The […]
Letter from William Lloyd Garrison to the Public (1831)
Source: Garrison, William Lloyd. “To The Public,” in The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison; with a Biographical Sketch, […]
The American Union
Tyrants of the old world! contemners of the rights of man! disbelievers in human freedom and equality! enemies of mankind! console not yourselves with the delusion, that REPUBLICANISM and the […]
Southern Desperation
The election of the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln, to the Presidency of the United States, has operated upon the whole slaveholding South in a manner indicative of the torments of […]
John Brown and the Principle of Nonresistance
A word upon the subject of Peace. I am a non-resistant–a believer in the inviolability of human life, under all circumstances; I, therefore, in the name of God, disarm John […]
Dred Scott and Disunion
We are here to enter our indignant protest against the Dred Scott decision-against the infamous Fugitive Slave Law-against all unjust and oppressive enactments, with reference to complexional distinctions-against the alarming […]
Disunion
We are asked, “How is the dissolution of the Union to be effected? Give us your plan!” My answer is, whenever THE PEOPLE are ready for Disunion, they will easily […]
Defense of Lincoln
Grant that there are many sad things to look in the face; grant that the whole of justice has not yet been done to the negro; grant that here and […]
American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sentiments
Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention, Selections from the Writings of W. L. Garrison (Boston:1852), 66–71. The Convention assembled in the city of Philadelphia, to organize a National […]