If the poverty of Negro labor renders it as a class less capable of giving the employer class trouble this poverty is at the same time a crime breeder and a huge crime breeder into the bargain.
Grimké connects poverty among Black laborers to an increase in crime, highlighting systemic issues.
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When he had ceased speaking I said to those around me: 'That is a providential man; he is a prophet; he will shake our nation to its center, but he will shake slavery out of it.
The difference between this motto of the Liberator and that of the Free Press: Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country--measures the greatness of the revolution which had taken place in the young editor.
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.