If their numbers are counted to swell the number of Representatives in our State and National Legislatures, the very least that can be done is to give them the right of petition in all cases whatsoever; and without any abridgement.
Grimké asserts that if women contribute to the political system, they should have the right to petition without restrictions.
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O! the deep, DEEP injury which such unfaithful ministers have inflicted on the South!
So far from thinking slavery a sin, or that I had no right to own the slaves inherited from my father, I thought no one could venture to dispute that right, any more than he could my right to his land or his stock.
The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation.
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.