Angelina Emily Grimké: “Are slaveholders willing to put swords and pistols into the hands of their slaves?”

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

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.

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.

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