And so down on the safety valve which free institutions provide, and regardless of the steam pressure within, the South has planted its brutal might with reckless and insolent disregard of consequences.
Grimké warns about the dangers of unchecked power in the South against the backdrop of free institutions.
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I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.
During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.
It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.
Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.