I will leave thee and my other readers to make the application of this comparison; and if thou dost not acknowledge that abolitionists have been governed by the soundest common sense in the course they have pursued at the North with regard to slavery, then I am very much disappointed in thy professions of candor.
Grimké invites her readers to recognize the logical consistency of abolitionists' actions in the North regarding slavery.
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