No Compromise with Slavery

No Compromise with Slavery is an address delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, February 14, 1854, by William Lloyd Garrison. The speaker says he has given an earnest espousal of the Anti-Slavery cause for a quarter of a century, under circumstances which have served in a special manner to identify his name and labours with it. The speaker tells his audience that they shall know all that is in his heart pertaining to Slavery, its supporters, and apologists. The speaker says he is a believer in that portion of the Declaration of American Independence which sets forth, among self-evident truths, that all men are created equal, and so calls himself an Abolitionist.

The speaker cites the Mosaic code, which says that he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death, and says that by it every American Slaveholder is convicted of a capital crime. The text asks whether God is but a phantom, and the Eternal Law but a figment of the imagination.