The failure of the old master class to seize the opportunity which had come to them a second time, following the collapse of the Rebellion, for progressive and constructive leadership of their section on the race question was an egregious blunder.
Grimké critiques the failure of the old master class to lead on race issues after the Civil War.
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It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.
With unerring moral instinct he had from the start placed his reliance "on nothing but the eternal principles of justice for the speedy overthrow of slavery.
Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.
I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.