He had committed the crime of murder, and fled because the monarch ‘sought to slay him.’ This exiled outlaw is the instrument chosen by God to vindicate the cause of his oppressed people.
Grimké describes Moses as an unlikely instrument of God for the liberation of his people.
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The fact is, the South is enraged, because we have exposed her horrible hypocrisy to the world.
Thy remarks on the subject of prejudice, show but too plainly how strongly thy own mind is imbued with it, and how little thy colonization principles have done to exterminate this feeling from thy own bosom.
What dost thou mean by saying, her rights are the gifts of honor, rectitude and love?
Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.