If not, then in holding others as slaves, I am doing what I would not wish to be done to me or any relative I have; and thus have I broken this golden rule which was given me to walk by.
Grimké reflects on the implications of the Golden Rule, emphasizing the moral failure of slaveholding.
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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.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.