Or that He who raised up a Moses, an Aaron, and a Miriam, to bring them up out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage, cannot now, with a high hand and a stretched out arm, rid the poor negroes out of the hands of their masters?
Grimké expresses faith that God can deliver enslaved people just as He did in biblical times.
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The more the subject of slavery is agitated, the better.
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.
Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.
How long she will stand by like the persecutor Saul, consenting unto the death of Stephen, and keeping the raiment of them that slew him.