Men who have never been heard of in the anti-slavery ranks, or who are ever submitting to a compromise of principle, have their bowels wonderfully moved all at once with sympathy for the suffering slave!
Grimké critiques those who suddenly express sympathy for slaves while compromising their principles.
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Love was in their mouths and love was in their hearts.
At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.
Sirs, I am not come to tell you that slavery is a curse, debasing in its effects, cruel in its operations, fatal in its continuance.
I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.