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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
Approximate author period: c. 1841 AD · industrial
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- William Lloyd Garrison
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- Approximate author period: c. 1841 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Resolution adopted by the Antislavery Society, Jan. 27, 1843.
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