Are we indeed to succumb to a corrupt public sentiment at the North, and the abominations of slavery at the South, by refraining from asserting the right of Americans to plant a literary institution in New Haven, or New York, or any where on the American soil?
Grimké challenges the idea of yielding to public sentiment against establishing educational institutions for all Americans.
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What dost thou mean by saying, her rights are the gifts of honor, rectitude and love?
I shall never forget my feelings when the subject was first hit upon in the Evangelist.
Thy remarks on the subject of prejudice, show but too plainly how strongly thy own mind is imbued with it, and how little thy colonization principles have done to exterminate this feeling from thy own bosom.
Slavery must be attacked with the whole power of truth and the sword of the spirit.