He had committed the crime of murder, and fled because the monarch ‘sought to slay him.’ This exiled outlaw is the instrument chosen by God to vindicate the cause of his oppressed people.
Grimké describes Moses as an unlikely instrument of God for the liberation of his people.
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No station or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.
Surely you believe that his aim is not shortened that he cannot save.
The fact is, the South is enraged, because we have exposed her horrible hypocrisy to the world.
Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.