Angelina Emily Grimké: “I know of no moral truth of greater importance at the present crisis.”

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.

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.