Read the two excerpts representing contrasting views of slavery. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm... but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.
-William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, 1831

However sound the great body of the non-slaveholding States are at present, in the course of a few years they will be succeeded by those who will have been taught to hate the people and institutions of nearly one-half of this Union, with a hatred more deadly than one hostile nation ever entertained towards another.
-John C. Calhoun
February 6, 1837

Garrison’s views regarding slavery were most directly influenced by the
•Missouri Compromise
•Second Great Awakening
•Bill of Rights
•Magna Carta