According to what thou sayest, the women of this country are not to be governed by principles of duty, but by the effect their petitions produce on the members of Congress, and by the opinions of these men.
Grimké critiques the idea that women's actions should be dictated by the responses of men in Congress rather than by their moral duties.
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Those who view with horror the traffic in slaves by ministers of the gospel, express more freely their pain at its indulgence, than I have ever known.
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.
Now the Bible is my ultimate appeal in all matters of faith and practice, and it is to this test I am anxious to bring the subject at issue between us.
A slaveholding religion--and multitudes of them became slaveholders.