Were I a mobocrat, I should want no better excuse than thou hast furnished for such outrages.
Angelina Emily Grimké: “Were I a mobocrat, I should want no better excuse than thou hast furnished for such outrages.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké suggests that her opponent's arguments could justify mob violence.
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There is nothing to fear from immediate Emancipation, but every thing from the continuance of slavery.
He is telling them of the munificent rewards offered by slaveholders, for the heads of the most distinguished advocates for freedom in this country.
He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.
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.