He left his master just as our Northern servants leave us; we have no power to compel them to remain with us, and no man has any right to oppress them; they go and dwell in that place where it chooseth them, and live just where they like.
Grimké argues against the oppression of escaped slaves, emphasizing their right to choose where to live.
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Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.
He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.