He is telling them of that mighty confederacy of petty tyrants which extends over thirteen States of our Union.
Angelina Emily Grimké
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Angelina Emily Grimké Weld was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. At one point she was the best known, or "most notorious," woman in the country. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were considered the only notable examples of white Southern women abolitionists. The sisters lived together as adults, while Angelina was the wife of abolitionist leader Theodore Dwight Weld.
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He is now lecturing to Britons on American Slavery, to the subjects of a King, on the abject condition of the slaves of a Republic.
What is he doing there, but constructing a stupendous dam, which will turn the overwhelming tide of public opinion over the wheels of that machinery which Abolitionists are working here.
Is he not now laboring there, as effectually to abolish American slavery as though he trod our own soil, and lectured to New York or Boston assemblies?
The giant of slavery who had so proudly defied the armies of the living God, had received his death-blow before he left our shores.
No! for the stone which struck Goliath of Gath, had already been thrown from the sling.
And have the slaveholder, and his obsequious apologist, gained any thing by all their violence and falsehood?
Thompson came here to war against the giant sin of slavery, not with the sword and the pistol, but with the smooth stones of oratory taken from the pure waters of the river of Truth.
False witnesses must appear against Abolitionists before they can be condemned.
The spirit which now asperses the character of the Abolitionists, is the very same which dressed up the Christians of Spain in the skins of wild beasts and pictures of devils when they were led to execution as heretics.
They are powerful appeals and have invariably done the work they were designed to do, and we cannot consent to abandon the use of these until the realities no longer exist.
To such hidden mourners the formation of Anti-Slavery Societies was as life from the dead, the first beams of hope which gleamed through the dark clouds of despondency and grief.