Here a great fundamental principle is uplifted and illuminated, and from this central light, rays innumerable stream all around.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “Here a great fundamental principle is uplifted and illuminated, and from this central light, rays innumerable stream all…”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké emphasizes the importance of a fundamental principle that illuminates various human rights issues.
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He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.
Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
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…
I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.