What then can we expect, but that the vials of divine wrath will be poured out upon a nation of oppressors and hypocrites? for we are loud in our professions of civil and ecclesiastical liberty.
Grimké warns of divine retribution for a nation that professes liberty while practicing oppression.
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The fact is, we need no excuse for not going to the South, so long as the North is as deeply involved in the guilt of slavery as she is, and as blind to her duty.
I think the abolitionists have done, and are doing a great deal of good, by holding slavery up to the public gaze.
Surely you believe that his aim is not shortened that he cannot save.
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