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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