Did the prophet Isaiah abuse the Jews when he addressed to them the cutting reproofs contained in the first chapter of his prophecies and ended by telling them, they would be ashamed of the oaks they had desired, and confounded for the garden they had chosen?
Grimké compares the criticism faced by abolitionists to the prophetic rebukes in the Bible.
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A slaveholding religion--and multitudes of them became slaveholders.
What kind of religion did the North prepare them to preach?
Surely you believe that his aim is not shortened that he cannot save.
I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow beings in bondage, regarding them as property, than to the holding of a mule or an ox.