side-relations

Updated: May 4, 2025

Surely it is about plain enough to be called self-evident, that the only common-sense method of conducting a great moral enterprise is to start with a fundamental, plain principle, so fundamental as not to involve side-relations, and so plain, that it cannot be denied." The main obvious principle he urges is to be pushed until the community surrenders to it. He adds:

Catherine H. Birney - The Grimké Sisters: Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of: Abolition and Woman's Rights