Yet, what is slavery but a breaking and treading down of the whole ten, what but a vast system of adultery, robbery, and murder, the daily and yearly infraction on an appalling scale not alone of the spirit but of the letter of the decalogue?
Grimké condemns slavery as a violation of all moral commandments, equating it to severe moral crimes.
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And politics is business, is the big business is it not, or ought it not to be the big business of all self governing peoples, who would maintain justice and freedom for themselves and transmit them unimpaired to their posterity?
Not at all, for they are most important, but without the ballot they are impotent to give the relief so much needed in the South.
It reaches down to the springs of fundamental social and political changes at the South in relation to its race question, and sets in motion the healing waters of its pool of Bethesda, which will in time heal it of its sickness and cleanse…
That colored men with the ballot should be rated in terms of the political game higher than other colored men who have it not, violates no rule of business ethics.