What then can we expect, but that the vials of divine wrath will be poured out upon a nation of oppressors and hypocrites? for we are loud in our professions of civil and ecclesiastical liberty.
Grimké warns of divine retribution for a nation that professes liberty while practicing oppression.
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I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
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