We are striving to purify public opinion, first, because as long as the North is so much involved in the guilt of slavery, by its political, commercial, religious, and social connexion with the South, her own citizens need to be converted.
Grimké emphasizes the need for Northern citizens to convert due to their complicity in slavery.
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Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
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.
I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.
What can I say more, my friends, to induce you to set your hands, and heads, and hearts, to this great work of justice and mercy.