Hence it appears, that so far from our resting ‘wholly upon a false deduction from past experience,’ we are resting on no experience at all; for no class of men in the world ever have maintained the principles which we now advocate.
Grimké argues that abolitionist principles are based on a lack of historical precedent for their advocacy.
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Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.
He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.