Why, that women are to exert their influence in private life, to allay the excitement which exists on this subject, and to quench the flame of sympathy in the hearts of their fathers, husbands, brothers and sons.
Grimké discusses the role of women in mitigating the tensions surrounding slavery within their families.
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Slavery may produce these horrible scenes if it is continued five years longer, but Emancipation never will.
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.
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.