The Catholics are universally condemned, for denying the Bible to the common people, but, slaveholders must not blame them, for they are doing the very same thing, and for the very same reason, neither of these systems can bear the light which bursts from the pages of that Holy Book.
Grimké critiques both slaveholders and Catholics for denying access to the Bible, highlighting the hypocrisy in their actions.
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