Is not the South sowing into the souls of both races the seeds of sin and violence, and shall it not then reap its full crop of crime and misery, the wild and anarchic harvest of the whirlwind?
Grimké questions the moral implications of the South's actions, predicting a future of crime and misery as a result of its current path.
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Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.
At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.
On every hand over against his paper rights as a citizen, the Negro faces facts which make his citizenship seem like a snare and a delusion.
During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.