Are we to select ‘some retired place,’ where there would be the least prejudice and opposition to meet, rather than openly and fearlessly to face the American monster, who, like the horse-leach, is continually crying give, give, and whose demands are only increased by compromise and surrender?
Grimké argues against retreating from the fight against prejudice and slavery.
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Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.
The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of the lowest ignorance.
O! the deep, DEEP injury which such unfaithful ministers have inflicted on the South!
Slavery must be attacked with the whole power of truth and the sword of the spirit.