Are we indeed to succumb to a corrupt public sentiment at the North, and the abominations of slavery at the South, by refraining from asserting the right of Americans to plant a literary institution in New Haven, or New York, or any where on the American soil?
Grimké challenges the idea of yielding to public sentiment against establishing educational institutions for all Americans.
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The laws greatly obstruct the manumission of slaves, even where the master is willing to enfranchise them.
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.
I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow beings in bondage, regarding them as property, than to the holding of a mule or an ox.
Now the Bible is my ultimate appeal in all matters of faith and practice, and it is to this test I am anxious to bring the subject at issue between us.