Angelina Emily Grimké: “The attributes of justice and mercy are shadowed out in the Hebrew code; those of injustice and cruelty, in the Code…”

He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.

There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.

I have endeavoured to set before you the exceeding sinfulness of slavery, and to point you to the example of those noble women who have been raised up in the church to effect great revolutions, and to suffer for the truth's sake.

Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.