Well, if any group of Negroes in almost any part of the South are hunting for trouble, let them get up a public meeting for such a purpose, and give vent to the righteous indignation against oppressions which ought to stir the blood of any man who is not a slave, and then watch results.
Grimké provocatively suggests that organizing a public meeting in the South could lead to violent backlash.
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With unerring moral instinct he had from the start placed his reliance "on nothing but the eternal principles of justice for the speedy overthrow of slavery.
Our garb should be sack-cloth--our heads bowed in the dust--our supplications for the pardon and assistance of Heaven.
Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.
I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.