Angelina Emily Grimké: “O! the deep, DEEP injury which such unfaithful ministers have inflicted on the South!”

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

Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.

And why not try it in the Southern States, if it never has occasioned rebellion; if not a drop of blood has ever been shed in consequence of it, though it has been so often tried, why should we suppose it would produce such disastrous…

What can I say more, my friends, to induce you to set your hands, and heads, and hearts, to this great work of justice and mercy.