Now, I believe this nation is rotten at the heart, and that nothing but the most tremendous blows with the sledge-hammer of abolition truth, could ever have broken the false rest which we had taken up for ourselves on the very brink of ruin.
Grimké asserts that the nation is fundamentally flawed and requires strong abolitionist truths to awaken it.
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They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
They are decidedly more prosperous than any of those in which the apprenticeship system was adopted, and England is now trying to abolish that system, so fully convinced is she that immediate Emancipation is the safest and the best plan.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.