If it is unpopular to plead the cause of the oppressed negro in New York, how dangerous to be known as his friend in the far South, where, as a correspondent in the Evangelist justly observes, a minister cannot enforce the law of love, without being suspected of favoring emancipation.
Grimké highlights the dangers faced by those advocating for the rights of enslaved individuals in the South.
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