Negro citizenship and suffrage he championed not to save the political power of his party and section, but as a duty which the republic owes to the weakest of her children because of their weakness.
Grimké articulates the moral obligation to advocate for Negro citizenship and suffrage, emphasizing duty over political gain.
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It should make this a day of fasting and prayer, not of boisterous merriment and idle pageantry--a day of great lamentation, not of congratulatory joy.
O Freedom! how are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nursed; What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors of the New Day burst.
During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.
Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.