It is, that the time will come, and at no distant day, when we shall be involved in all the horrors of a servile war, which will not end until both sides have suffered much, until the land shall everywhere be red with blood, and until the slaves or the whites are totally exterminated.
Grimké foresees a devastating civil conflict arising from the issue of slavery, with catastrophic outcomes for all involved.
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What dost thou mean by saying, her rights are the gifts of honor, rectitude and love?
Send us facts--send us kind remonstrance and manly reasoning.
Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.
My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.