According to what thou sayest, the women of this country are not to be governed by principles of duty, but by the effect their petitions produce on the members of Congress, and by the opinions of these men.
Grimké critiques the idea that women's actions should be dictated by the responses of men in Congress rather than by their moral duties.
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The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.
What kind of religion did the North prepare them to preach?
So far from thinking slavery a sin, or that I had no right to own the slaves inherited from my father, I thought no one could venture to dispute that right, any more than he could my right to his land or his stock.
The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation.