Well, if any group of Negroes in almost any part of the South are hunting for trouble, let them get up a public meeting for such a purpose, and give vent to the righteous indignation against oppressions which ought to stir the blood of any man who is not a slave, and then watch results.
Grimké provocatively suggests that organizing a public meeting in the South could lead to violent backlash.
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And in this moral mud there bred apace bestiality and cruelty, superstition and sensuality, tyranny and fear--the black brood of man's inhumanity to man.
Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?
Our garb should be sack-cloth--our heads bowed in the dust--our supplications for the pardon and assistance of Heaven.
It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.