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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I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
And why not try it in the Southern States, if it never has occasioned rebellion; if not a drop of blood has ever been shed in consequence of it, though it has been so often tried, why should we suppose it would produce such disastrous…
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.