It is too busy attending to the more important business relating to the property rights and interests of shippers and capitalists to spare the time to break up an evil which makes the existence of colored interstate passengers an unbroken experience of bitter hardships and humiliations.
Grimké critiques the neglect of the struggles faced by African Americans in the context of governmental priorities.
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I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.
O Freedom! how are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nursed; What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors of the New Day burst.
No body of men on the face of the earth deserve their charities, and prayers, and united assistance so much as the slaves of this country; and yet they are almost entirely neglected.
Lay not down your weapons until honorable terms are obtained.