If you could obtain but six signatures to such a petition in only one state, I would say, send up that petition, and be not in the least discouraged by the scoffs and jeers of the heartless, or the resolution of the house to lay it on the table.
Grimké encourages women to persist in their petitions for justice despite potential ridicule.
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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.
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.
They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.