The spirit which now asperses the character of the Abolitionists, is the very same which dressed up the Christians of Spain in the skins of wild beasts and pictures of devils when they were led to execution as heretics.
Grimké draws a parallel between the persecution of abolitionists and the historical treatment of heretics in Spain.
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