It was not the love of fame surely which brought them over so many hundreds of miles, which made so many of them endure real physical privation, which drew all by a common, an irresistible impulse to congregate for an unpopular purpose within reach of the teeth and the claws of an enraged public opinion.
Grimké highlights the deep emotional and moral motivations that drove reformers to gather for the abolitionist cause.
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