Because they exposed and openly rebuked public sins; they opposed public opinion; had they held their peace, they all might have lived in ease and died in favor with a wicked generation.
Grimké explains that the persecution of prophets was due to their opposition to public sins and opinions.
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He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
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.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.